Hello Fabien, or anyone else affected,

Accepted linux-base into bionic-proposed. The package will build now and
be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-
base/4.5ubuntu1.6 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

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** Changed in: linux-base (Ubuntu Bionic)
       Status: Confirmed => Fix Committed

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1929255

Title:
  update-initrd-links creates incorrect symlinks

Status in linux-base package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in linux-base source package in Bionic:
  Fix Committed
Status in linux-base source package in Focal:
  Fix Committed
Status in linux-base source package in Groovy:
  New
Status in linux-base source package in Hirsute:
  New
Status in linux-base source package in Impish:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  [Impact]

  ## Problem description

  Executing the `/etc/kernel/postinst.d/xx-update-initrd-links` script
  incorrectly detects symbolic links targets and then creates malformed
  (hence broken) ones instead:

  /initrd.img -> initrd.imgboot/vmlinuz-5.3.0-53-generic
  /initrd.img.old -> initrd.imgboot/vmlinuz-5.3.0-53-generic

  while it should actually be:

  /initrd.img -> boot/initrd.img-5.3.0-53-generic
  /initrd.img.old -> boot/initrd.img-5.3.0-53-generic

  The problem appeared with the release of the version 4.5ubuntu1.5 of
  the linux-base package, which made this script executable.

  [Test Plan]

   * Install new linux-base and initramfs-tools

   * create /etc/kernel-img.conf with

  do_symlinks = yes
  do_bootloader = no
  do_initrd = yes
  link_in_boot = yes

   * Install one kernel flavour, check that symlinks in /boot have sane targets
   * Install another kernel, check that symlinks in /boot/ have sane targets

   * create a selfbuilt kernel and install it by calling installkernel
  (you can download kernel debs from kernel-ppa, and unpack them to
  pretend one has self built it). and check that symlinks in /boot have
  sane targets.

   * Purge all kernel, and remove symlinks in /boot

   * Update /etc/kernel-img.conf to

  do_symlinks = yes
  do_bootloader = no
  do_initrd = yes
  link_in_boot = no

   * Install one kernel flavour, check that symlinks in / have sane targets
   * Install another kernel, check that symlinks in / have sane targets
   * create a selfbuilt kernel and install it by calling installkernel (you can 
download kernel debs from kernel-ppa, and unpack them to pretend one has self 
built it)

  * remove all kernels, purge initramfs-tools, clean up symlinks in / and /boot
  * repeat all of the above, without having initramfs-tools installed. I.e. 
install kernels _without_ recommneds.

  [Where problems could occur]

   * The rewritten postinst.d script now simply mostly calls linux-
  update-links like the normal linux-image postinst script does. One has
  to make sure that .deb installations of kernels happens correctly and
  that installkernel way of installing kernels happens correctly. Under
  different kernel-img.conf settings. The previous incarnations of
  fixing this and related issues did not account for the above cases and
  codepaths.

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