Bug#795139: debian-installer: Softlink target path for /initrd.img is different from /vmlinuz
Package: debian-installer
Severity: minor
Dear Maintainer,
This is a bug so minor, that I am embarassed to report it. It has, however,
bugged me for some time now. After a fresh install of debian jessie, the
softlinks from /initrd.img and /vmlinuz points to different locations:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Aug 10 22:20 initrd.img ->
/boot/initrd.img-3.16.0-4-amd64
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Aug 10 22:20 vmlinuz ->
boot/vmlinuz-3.16.0-4-amd64
Notice how one is to "/boot" (absolute path) and one is to "boot" (relative
path).
I would expect these to refer to the exact same boot path. Now, this shouldn't
have any relevance unless one actually moves those links, but the difference
could eventually make a difference (no pun intended). I don't know which one is
more correct: /boot or boot. I also do not know exactly which package creates
those links. I tried to search for them but I could not find any better package
which is why I report it to debian-installer.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers testing-updates
APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.0.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
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