Bug#816096: initramfs-tools: Error reporting false missing dependancy on busybox

[Christophe <christophe.curis@free.fr>]

----- Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> a écrit :
> 
> On Sat, 2016-02-27 at 13:04 +0100, Christophe wrote:
> > Package: initramfs-tools
> > Version: 0.123
> > Severity: important
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> > Let me know if there is some info you'd need to debug the issue.
> 
> I wonder if busybox got upgraded too late.  Is this reproducible if you
> run 'update-initramfs -u' now?
> 
> Ben.

Hi Ben,

Unfortunately running this command still gives me the error.
Out of curiosity I have started some investigations, and the message comes from the script "mkinitramfs" from this check:

if [ "${BUSYBOX}" = "y" ] && [ -z "${BUSYBOXDIR}" ]; then

I have seen this:
 - BUSYBOX is properly set to "y" from /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf
 - BUSYBOXDIR, however, is prepared empty at the beginning of mkinitramfs, but never given a value afterwards... Any idea how it is supposed to be defined?

Christophe.