Control: tag -1 confirmed
Control: affects -1 release.debian.org

On Tue, 2024-09-24 at 02:46 +0200, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> Package: initramfs-tools-core
> Version: 0.142+deb12u1
> Severity: serious
> Justification: hidden breakage for users, ought to be fixed in stable-pu
> X-Debbugs-Cc: t...@mirbsd.de
> 
> In bullseye, this would work:
> 
> copy_exec /usr/lib/klibc/bin/rnd_shuf /usr/libexec/
> copy_exec /usr/sbin/rdate /usr/libexec/
[...]

This was not an intended feature.  When specifiing a diectory as the
target you are supposed to ensure that it already exists under
${DESTDIR}.  It seems that this just happened to work when the target
name ended in a slash.

The changes in the last point release to avoid duplicating files
accessed via directory symlinks broke that because realpath strips the
trailing slash.

I suppose I can make this work again for bookworm, but I won't do so
for unstable.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Knowledge is power.  France is bacon.

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