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

[Adam D. Barratt]

Control: tags -1 + pending

On Fri, 2017-07-14 at 18:58 +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> 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.

Uploaded and flagged for acceptance.

Regards,

Adam