Bug#638068: old busybox

[Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>]

On Wed, Dec 07, 2011 at 01:02:03PM -0800, ncm@cantrip.org wrote:
> I don't know if this is the same problem.  I installed a new
> kernel (linux-image-3.1.0-1-amd64) which would not finish booting
> because the initramfs image was unusable.  It turned out that
> upgrading busybox from 1:1.1.3-3 to 1:1.19.3-4 enabled
> initramfs-tools to construct a working boot image.  Probably
> initramfs-tools should depend on a later version of busybox
> than 1:1.01-3.

Please don't ask us to support etch, as hysterical laughing
may offend.

I think we should remove the versioned dependency altogether;
packages in testing/unstable may assume that their dependencies
are at least as new as stable.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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