While I understand the impact of having console-setup potentially "hang" the system on upgrade, this isn't something that happens systematically, it's also not a regression introduced in 1.108ubuntu15.4, so what is the net benefit in not releasing this SRU? Certainly people might still upgrade to $some_version of console-setup and have a hang caused by plymouth not responding correctly to plymouth --ping?
I don't know that console-setup should be verification-fail because of that. There's an issue, sure; a regression, maybe; but neither were introduced by this particular upload. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to console-setup in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1721626 Title: Remove obsolete versioned dependency on initramfs-tools Edit Status in console-setup package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in console-setup source package in Xenial: Fix Committed Bug description: [SRU Justification] Up until artful, console-setup declares a versioned dependency on initramfs-tools. This was an Ubuntu-specific dependency only needed for upgrades, and the version referenced is ancient (ca. 2008). In artful and later, the dependency has now been removed. Since this is no longer relevant for upgrades and we would not otherwise have a dependency on initramfs-tools, we should drop this dependency to support building of images with initramfs-tools removed for systems that we know don't require an initramfs. [Test case] 1. On a xenial default cloud image install, try to run 'sudo apt purge initramfs-tools'. 2. Verify that this tries to remove console-setup, console-setup-linux, and kbd. 3. Cancel the removal. 4. Install console-setup from xenial-proposed. 5. Run 'sudo apt purge initramfs-tools' again. 6. Verify that console-setup, console-setup-linux, and kbd are not removed. 7. Run 'sudo apt install --reinstall console-setup' and confirm that the package can be installed successfully without initramfs-tools installed. [Regression Potential] If a user needs an initramfs in order to mount their root device, and console-setup is the only package on their system which depends on initramfs-tools, it is possible that the user may remove initramfs-tools and render their system unbootable. This is unlikely because initramfs-tools is still part of the 'minimal' seed and is therefore a dependency of ubuntu-minimal; and it remains a dependency of the generic kernel image. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/console-setup/+bug/1721626/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
