Bug#564887: two runs of update-initramfs per upgrade

[jidanni@jidanni.org]

Package: initramfs-tools
Version: 0.93.4
Severity: wishlist

Below we see two runs of
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-trunk-686

Or maybe even the doc file causes an extra run.

# aptitude full-upgrade
...
Setting up linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 (2.6.32-5) ...
Running depmod.
Running update-initramfs.
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-trunk-686
Running update-grub.
Updating /boot/grub/grub.cfg ...
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-trunk-686
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-trunk-686
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-1-686
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-1-686
done
Examining /etc/kernel/postinst.d.
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools 2.6.32-trunk-686 /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-trunk-686
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/pm-utils 2.6.32-trunk-686 /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-trunk-686
Setting up apt-utils (0.7.25.1) ...
Setting up firmware-linux-free (2.6.32-5) ...
Setting up libwebkit-1.0-2 (1.1.18-1) ...
Setting up linux-doc-2.6.32 (2.6.32-5) ...
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-trunk-686
Processing triggers for python-support ...

-- Package-specific info:
-- /proc/cmdline
BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-trunk-686 root=/dev/sda1 ro single

-- /etc/kernel-img.conf
# Kernel image management overrides
# See kernel-img.conf(5) for details
do_symlinks = yes
relative_links = yes
do_bootloader = no
do_bootfloppy = no
do_initrd = yes
link_in_boot = no
postinst_hook = update-grub
postrm_hook   = update-grub

-- /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf
MODULES=most
BUSYBOX=y
KEYMAP=n
BOOT=local
DEVICE=eth0
NFSROOT=auto

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers experimental
  APT policy: (990, 'experimental'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=zh_TW.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=zh_TW.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages initramfs-tools depends on:
ii  cpio                          2.10-1     GNU cpio -- a program to manage ar
ii  findutils                     4.4.2-1    utilities for finding files--find,
ii  klibc-utils                   1.5.15-1   small utilities built with klibc f
ii  module-init-tools             3.11-1     tools for managing Linux kernel mo
ii  udev                          150-2      /dev/ and hotplug management daemo

Versions of packages initramfs-tools recommends:
pn  busybox | busybox-initramfs   <none>     (no description available)

initramfs-tools suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information