Ash Joubert wrote: > On 2024-07-20 03:39, Celejar wrote: > > Thanks much! > > [...] > > As per another message in this thread, I've already filed a bug against > linux-image-6.9.9-amd64, but I suppose I should update the report with > this information, indicating that it's not really a problem with that > package. > > > You are welcome! Please close your kernel bug report. > > Hard to pin this on the firmware package either as the recommends is > arguably the right behaviour to prevent missing firmware at boot time, > but the recommends has this surprising side-effect for those with > a /boot partition with insufficient free space for such a large > firmware package. It is not dangerous because the old initrd is not > removed until the new one is written successfully, but it is annoying!
Update: FWIW, Debian Developer Ben Hutchings actually assigned this issue a "grave" severity, and it was ultimately moved to the initramfs-tools package. It's now fixed: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1076561 -- Celejar
