Package: busybox
Version: 1:1.30.1-4
Severity: wishlist
x-debbugs-cc: Russell Weber <rustyscottweber@gmail.com>
submitter: Russell Weber <rustyscottweber@gmail.com>
On Wed, Jul 08, 2020 at 02:43:43PM -0600, Russell Weber wrote:
> Package: busybox
> Version: 1:1.30.1-4
> Severity: wishlist
> lsblk is a very useful tool for understanding your current disks and block
> devices. It can be used to
> query lots of information including disk manufacturer, serial number, model
> number, the structure of your disks if the disk is already in use for
> another block device. Given that the installer has mission critical goals
> associated with the disks, it's a bit of a mystery that lsblk isn't
> included into the busy box implementation used in the installer. This is
> especially important when seeding automatic/unattended installs for debian
> since many of the seed files used will query information from disks in
> scripts using the "d-i partman/early_command string" of debconf. I can see
> that this issue has been raised in multiple places online: stack overflow,
> IRC. However, scanning older tickets, I was not able to find a ticket
> which raises the issue. Is there any reason that lsblk as a command is not
> included? As far as I can tell, the bloat size would only be around 20-40
> KiB in size. May I suggest that we start including the lsblk binaries in
> the next versions of Debian?