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Bug#864143: closed by Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> (Re: Bug#864143: initramfs-tools: missing dependency on busybox?)



On Mon, 2017-06-05 at 17:13 +0100, Dave Love wrote:
> I guess I wrote that badly.
> 
> busybox isn't actually required by cryptsetup, just recommended, but it
> should be required by something.  The example shows it's possible to
> make packages uninstallable, if they pull the initramfs trigger, by
> removing busybox, which you can do cleanly as far as apt is concerned:

If cryptsetup's initramfs support was moved to a separate package, that
would depend on busybox.  See bug #783297.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
It is easier to write an incorrect program than to understand a correct
one.

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