Bug#611046: misleading message in verbose mode (gzip not found, using gzip)

[Gianluigi Tiesi <sherpya@netfarm.it>]

On 25/01/2011 10:26, maximilian attems wrote:
> tags 611046 pending
> stop
>
> On Tue, 25 Jan 2011, Gianluigi Tiesi wrote:
>
> > due to a script assignment misplacement mkinitramfs displays a misleading message:
> >
> > No gzip in /usr/bin:/sbin:/bin, using gzip
> >
> > instead of
> >
> > No lzma in /usr/bin:/sbin:/bin, using gzip
>
> lol indeed.
>
> > this makes difficult to known that it needs lzma executable in the path
> > (I tought xz instead)
> >
> > the attached patch fixes the problem
>
> thanks applied to maks/zip_error, pending review it will land
> in master for next initramfs-tools relase.
> http://git.debian.org/?p=kernel/initramfs-tools.git;a=summary
>
> > --- /usr/sbin/mkinitramfs.orig  2011-01-25 03:18:04.183906059 +0100
> > +++ /usr/sbin/mkinitramfs       2011-01-25 03:16:12.529490992 +0100
> this is wrong path, please use git as described in
> http://git.debian.org/?p=kernel/initramfs-tools.git;a=blob_plain;f=docs/maintainer-notes.html;hb=HEAD
> to allow quicker and easier patch application,
> also your patch is below is white space mangled probalby due to
> your mail user agent.

No, I've used reportbug, but copy/pasted the patch with putty because 
the problem was in another box, and I lost tabs.
It was a quick report and one-line only.

Regards

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