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

[Andreas Beckmann]

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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.


Andreas