Bug#822671: initramfs-tools: preserves unmodified /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf on upgrades from jessie

[Andrew Worsley <amworsley@gmail.com>]

Hi, I am a newbie (have a mentor account and looking to help)
I just looked into this bug and tried to apply the patch - but it
appears the files are missing - perhaps way out of date?

Perhaps still has errors as piuparts that I ran reported a problem
with the latest package I built.

If it is welcome I am willing to investigate and try to fix this.

If I am way off track let me know so I don't waste people's time
(including mine :-)

I also just tried to run piuparts in a (vagrant box in case it messed
up my own initramfs ?) and still getting an error:

...
6m17.1s DEBUG: No broken symlinks as far as we can find.
6m17.1s DEBUG: Starting command: ['chroot', '/tmp/tmpJWYJRD',
'eatmydata', 'dpkg-divert', '--list']
6m17.1s DUMP:
  diversion of /usr/share/man/man1/sh.1.gz to
/usr/share/man/man1/sh.distrib.1.gz by dash
  diversion of /bin/sh to /bin/sh.distrib by dash
6m17.1s DEBUG: Command ok: ['chroot', '/tmp/tmpJWYJRD', 'eatmydata',
'dpkg-divert', '--list']
6m17.1s DEBUG: Starting command: ['chroot', '/tmp/tmpJWYJRD',
'eatmydata', 'apt-get', 'clean']
6m17.1s DEBUG: Command ok: ['chroot', '/tmp/tmpJWYJRD', 'eatmydata',
'apt-get', 'clean']
6m17.4s ERROR: FAIL: Package purging left files on system:
  /etc/bash_completion.d/        not owned
  /etc/bash_completion.d/initramfs-tools.dpkg-new        not owned
  /var/log/apt/eipp.log.xz       not owned

6m17.4s ERROR: FAIL: Installation and purging test.
...

Andrew Worsley