Control: retitle -1 initramfs-tools-core: Please depend on logsave On 2019-07-23 22:37 +0000, Colin Booth wrote:
> Package: initramfs-tools-core > Version: 0.133 > > The functions file shipped with initramfs-tools-core version 0.133 and > earlier contains a call to logsave(8) in the _checkfs_once() function. > The latest version of e2fsprogs (1.45.3-1) has removed logsave and it is > now shipped in a separate package. This causes a surprise drop into an > initramfs shell as the fsck line fails. In order not to instantly break initramfs-tools and thus booting the system, the new e2fsprogs package should have depended on logsave rather than just suggesting it. See #932861 and friends. > Please add a Depends: logsave in the next shipping version of > initramfs-tools-core or update the _checkfs_once function to not require > that program. ITSM that depending on logsave | e2fsprogs (<< 1.45.3) is sufficient, and probably also necessary. Cheers, Sven