[pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#905574: linux-image-4.17.0-0.bpo.1-amd64: cryptsetup missing in intitramfs for kernel 4.17

[Ian Campbell]

On Mon, 2018-08-06 at 23:47 +0800, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Mon, 2018-08-06 at 14:40 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > On Mon, 2018-08-06 at 21:15 +0800, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > > > Inspecting the initramfs shows that the cryptsetup related
> > > > parts are
> > > > missing for 4.17, but still in the 4.16 kernel.
> > > > 
> > > > I was able to mitigate the issue by use the cryptsetup packages
> > > > from
> > > > buster.
> > > 
> > > This is strange.  Kernel packages do not determine what goes into
> > > the
> > > initramfs.
> > 
> > Possibly the cryptsetup package changed (and become broken). Then
> > the
> > 4.17 initramfs was (re)built (due to the install/upgrade of that
> > kernel) while the 4.16 initramfs wasn't rebuilt.
> 
> In stable?  (There's no backport of cryptsetup.)

Ah, sorry, I didn't read close enough and somehow thought this was in
unstable.

For stable/bpo s/the cryptsetup package/some package/.

> > I expected that there were be triggers in place which should have
> > caused the 4.16 initramfs (in fact, all initramfses) to be updated
> > if a
> > relevant package (e.g. cryptsetup) was changed, but perhaps that
> > was
> > more in hope than expectation and it's only an initramfs-tools
> > update
> > which would trigger that?
> 
> Installing or upgrading cryptsetup will trigger an update of the newest
> installed kernel version's initramfs.

Thanks, that would potentially explain why 4.16 continues to work (it
has an older working initramfs).

Ian.