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Bug#847343: firmware-misc-nonfree: breaks update-initramfs (initramfs-tools <= 0.125) if plymouth installed



On Sat, 2016-12-10 at 11:24 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> 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.
[...]

The cost of a Breaks that is too broad is that linux is uninstallable
in jessie-backports.

(No, initramfs-tools can't be backported, look at *its* Breaks line.)

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Logic doesn't apply to the real world. - Marvin Minsky

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