Package: flash-kernel Version: 3.35+deb8u1 Severity: important Tags: d-i Dear Maintainer,
when installing flash-kernel on a very basic and minimal system (created with multistrap) flash-kernel fails to install. While flash-kernel does seem to work and is installed afterwards this makes automated installation via multistrap impossible. My packages from multistrap looks like this, which as you can see is fairly minimal packages=f2fs-tools connman wpasupplicant iptables dropbear avahi-daemon libv4l-0 lsb-invalid-mta ca-certificates mtd-utils busybox apt usbmount udisks2 rsync I guess adding some dialog dependancy is probably the quickest fix, but I don't think is the best solution. root@system-02880482d32a:~# apt-get install flash-kernel Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: flash-kernel 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 25 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/34.2 kB of archives. After this operation, 76.8 kB of additional disk space will be used. debconf: delaying package configuration, since apt-utils is not installed Selecting previously unselected package flash-kernel. (Reading database ... 14355 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../flash-kernel_3.35+deb8u1_armhf.deb ... Unpacking flash-kernel (3.35+deb8u1) ... Setting up flash-kernel (3.35+deb8u1) ... debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog debconf: (No usable dialog-like program is installed, so the dialog based frontend cannot be used. at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Dialog.pm line 76.) debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline readlink: invalid option -- 'm' BusyBox v1.22.1 (Debian 1:1.22.0-9+deb8u1) multi-call binary. Usage: readlink [-fnv] FILE Display the value of a symlink -f Canonicalize by following all symlinks -n Don't add newline -v Verbose : Unable to determine The new file dpkg: error processing package flash-kernel (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: flash-kernel E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) P.S. 3.46~bpo8+1 also suffers the same problem. -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386, armhf Kernel: Linux 4.3.0-rc1+ (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)