Bug#544834: initramfs-tools: Purging a kernel-image does not clean up

[maximilian attems <max@stro.at>]

On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 10:18:21AM +0200, Mart van de Wege wrote:
> Package: initramfs-tools
> Version: 0.93.4
> Severity: important
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> From: Mart van de Wege <mvdwege@mail.com>
> To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
> Subject: initramfs-tools: Purging a kernel-image does not clean up
>  /var/lib/initramfs-tools
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> Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2009 10:14:12 +0200
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> Package: initramfs-tools
> Version: 0.93.4
> Severity: important
> 
> When purging a kernel image, the corresponding file in /var/lib/initramfs-tools is not 
> deleted. On the next run of apt-get/dpkg, this will make update-initramfs fail because 
> the modules for a listed kernel do of course not exist anymore.
> 
> It might be a good idea to at least also mention the state dir in the manpage. I had to 
> resort to actually looking at the shell script to find out why update-initramfs kept 
> trying to create an initrd for a non-existent kernel, after finding no documentation in 
> the manpage.
> 
> Marking important because although there is a workaround, it is non-documented.
> 
> Mart van de Wege

what are you trying to do?
please post the script calling update-initramfs, thanks.