Bug#918498: /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/keymap: Please ship in the kbd or console-setup package
On Sun, Feb 03, 2019 at 11:48:06PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Sun, 06 Jan 2019 10:59:47 -0800 Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org
> > wrote:
> > Package: initramfs-tools-core
> > Version: 0.132
> > Severity: normal
> > File: /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/keymap
> >
> > initramfs-tools ships a hook for setting a keymap, which complains on
> > every run of update-initramfs without kbd or console-setup installed.
> > Please consider moving this hook to kbd or console-setup, so that it
> > doesn't run at all without one of those packages installed.
>
> This only happens if you set KEYMAP=y in initramfs.conf or you install
> a package that does that.
Yes, I'm aware of that.
> (cryptsetup-initramfs does so, on the
> assumption that you will need to type a passphrase.)
And I have cryptsetup-initramfs installed (and kbd and console-setup
intentionally not installed).
> I don't consider this a bug.
I get a complaint every single time I upgrade packages that cause the
initramfs trigger to run, and every time I regenerate the initramfs
myself. I'd like to stop getting that message.
This hook doesn't make sense to run unless kbd or console-setup is
installed. Rather than having the hook in initramfs-tools and checking
if kbd or console-setup is installed, why not move the hook to one of
those packages (where it can *know* that package is installed)?
cryptsetup-initramfs already Recommends kbd and console-setup. This
error message feels tantamount to emitting a warning on every single apt
upgrade saying "there are recommended packages you don't have
installed".
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