Bug#353809: initramfs-tools: Silently destroys yaird initrd image on package update

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 12:27:07AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 09:19:29AM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 07:49:42PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > > Um.  How does this "break unrelated software"?
> 
> > Yes. The kernel image depends on both. So yaird is unrelated to
> > initramfs-tools.
> 
> > >                                                 It doesn't respect the
> > > policy set in /etc/kernel-img.conf, and it overwrites the initrd image
> > > without asking, but what *broke*?
> 
> > It breaks booting of all images.
> 
> *How*?  Nothing in this report has described actual breakage.  If using
> initramfs-tools to generate initramfs images prevents the system from
> booting, that is indeed a critical bug, but that's not the bug that Jonas
> filed.

initramfs-tools breaks the ramdisk generating policy, or more probably the
kernel or k-p generated scripts do so, so it is at least serious severity..

Friendly,

Sven Luther