Bug#847343: firmware-misc-nonfree: breaks update-initramfs (initramfs-tools <= 0.125) if plymouth installed
On Thu, Dec 08, 2016 at 02:21:21AM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
>...
> > (2) firmware-misc-nonfree lacks "Breaks: initramfs-tools (<=
> > 0.125)" which it will need even after #847340 is fixed.
>
> I won't add that Breaks line because:
> - Only the combination of the new firmware-misc-nonfree *and* plymouth
> breaks with the unfixed initramfs-tools
The cost of a Breaks that is too broad is low, in the most common cases
it might just change the order in which packages are being upgraded.
> - jessie and jessie-backports will never have a version of initramfs-
> tools that satisfies that
It might not catch this specific case, but "upgrade only one package
from jessie to stretch" is the kind of piupart issues that are now
automatically blocking testing migration.
There is also the practical risk that without a defined order through
Breaks, initramfs-tools might end up being upgraded much later than
the firmware during dist-upgrade.
> - jessie can get a fix for this in a stable update
>...
You cannot assume that a user has something more recent than the
initial jessie release installed.
> Ben.
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Adrian
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