Bug#866643: jessie-pu: package init-select/1.20140921+deb8u1

[Adam D. Barratt]

Control: tags -1 + confirmed

On Mon, 2017-07-10 at 01:59 +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> Control: tag -1 - moreinfo
> 
> On 2017-07-01 02:32, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> > Andreas Beckmann <anbe at debian.org> (2017-06-30):
> >> init-select contains a grub config snippet that unconditionally runs a
> >> command, which will cause failures (in update-grub and friends) if
> >> init-select was removed but not purged.
> >> This was noticed on jessie->stretch upgrades of coreboot where
> >> init-select was installed in jessie (but gets removed during the upgrade
> >> to stretch).
> 
> > I accidentally noticed a thread on debian-ctte@ about this. It would be
> > helpful to have a summary of what was agreed on there, and to make sure
> > grub people are in the loop.
> 
> Discussion over there has ceased.
> To summarize it in one sentence:
>   grub is encouraged to claim ownership of that conffile and take the
>   neccessary measures to fix this bug on upgrades to stretch.
> 
> I havent heard of any progress on the grub side ...
> but since it is also reproducible in plain jessie (the neccessary
> sequence is just not covered by the default piuparts tests), let's fix
> init-select in jessie, too.

That seems a reasonable idea from my reading of the TC discussion.

Regards,

Adam