Bug#780994: flash-kernel: Missing dependency on u-boot-tools fails initramfs-tools to fail

[Martin Stigge <martin@stigge.org>]

Package: flash-kernel
Version: 3.33
Severity: normal

Hi,

I just installed flash-kernel but didn't have u-boot-tools installed. I
believe it's the initramfs trigger that failed with the following:

Generating boot script u-boot image... /usr/sbin/flash-kernel: 348: /usr/sbin/flash-kernel: mkimage: not found
run-parts: /etc/initramfs/post-update.d//flash-kernel exited with return code 127
dpkg: error processing package initramfs-tools (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 initramfs-tools
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

That's easily resolved by installing the u-boot-tools package, but I would
have expected that do be a dependency in that case. I see that it's a
Suggests, but looks rather essential to me.

Thanks for considering.

Regards,
Martin

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: armhf (armv7l)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-armmp (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages flash-kernel depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.55
ii  devio                  1.2-1
ii  initramfs-tools        0.119
ii  linux-base             3.5
ii  ucf                    3.0030

flash-kernel recommends no packages.

Versions of packages flash-kernel suggests:
ii  u-boot-tools  2014.10+dfsg1-4

-- debconf information:
  flash-kernel/linux_cmdline: quiet