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Bug#971270: Bug#972678: initramfs-tools: bad error message when zstd requested but not installed



On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 8:06 AM Florian La Roche <florian.laroche@googlemail.com> wrote:
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> Hello Russel Coker,
>
> a fix is in https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=971270
>
> best regards, greetings to you Russell,
>
> Florian La Roche
>

Tested your patch on initramfs-tools 0.139 -- which conf/initramfs.conf was modified to default to Zstd -- on an VirtualBox 6.1.16 Debian instance without Zstd package installed.

< https://metztli.blog/media/blogs/ixiptli/139-with-non-existing-zstd-package.png?mtime=1603447297 >

It fulfilled its intended purpose. Thank you, as well!

Best Professional Regards.


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