On 30/01/2020 16:43, Ben Hutchings wrote:
Oh, right, then I misunderstood what you were doing. I don't understand how the two templates work together, so it may well be that the first version was OK.
I don't really grok debconf, but from what I can tell: 1. at build-time, x may be set differently per-arch 2. either x or y may be preseeded with a value by the user 3. if y is empty, it's set to the value of x at install-time 4. installer asks about y (based on priority) 5. value of y is used to configure initramfs-tools where: x is base-installer/kernel/linux/initramfs-tools/* (string) y is base-installer/initramfs-tools/* (select)If either is set to a wrong value, y is somehow reset to it's first choice. I searched a bit and came across bug #192889 which says it's the frontend that does sanitization, so step 4.
The first version is probably good enough, except in contrived situations designed to break it.
(You didn't reply to the bts, so I'm not doing either. Just pointing it out in case it was by accident. If you resend to bts, feel free to forward this mail as well.)