GeezerVison

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Created: 2019-03-21 Last update: 2026-11-12 09:30

The bug tracker contains patches fixing 24 bugs (25 if counting merged bugs) to review: include them, or remove the patch tag.

Created: 2026-09-02 Last update: 2026-11-12 09:30

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commit b6795cfe2545b18b30526deb7b609f74339bd6e0
Author: Benjamin Drung <[email protected]>
Date:   Fri Jul 17 01:50:00 2026 +0200

    Run wrap-and-sort
    
    Gbp-Dch: ignore

commit b5dbe2e94285bbf8a806455e7aa88dc1be7f90ec
Merge: d3b96c1 96faefa
Author: Ben Hutchings <[email protected]>
Date:   Wed May 6 16:54:46 2026 +0200

    Merge branch 'unmkinitramfs-busybox' into 'debian/latest'
    
    unmkinitramfs: Make it compatible with Busybox cpio
    
    See merge request kernel-team/initramfs-tools!195

commit 96faefa3eb964c5e25cb3d0dce30817208a27a26
Author: Ben Hutchings <[email protected]>
Date:   Mon May 4 13:26:26 2026 +0200

    tests: Test unmkinitramfs with 3cpio, default cpio, and Busybox
    
    unmkinitramfs is supposed to work with both 3cpio and the default cpio
    implementation (GNU or uutils), and now also with Busybox.  However
    the test case does not verify this; it only covers whichever
    implementation unmkinitramfs uses by default.
    
    - Add 3cpio, busybox, and cpio to the test dependencies
    
    - Change the test to test with each of the 3 implementations (or 2 if
      3cpio is not available) by modifying $PATH
    
    Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <[email protected]>

commit f0299e7cfbefea8e1b8e173706b8e9eef1f04a2a
Author: Ben Hutchings <[email protected]>
Date:   Wed May 6 14:59:14 2026 +0200

    tests: Always use 3cpio to create images in unmkinitramfs
    
    3cpio is available on all release architectures, so we can
    unconditionally use it in this test case.
    
    Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <[email protected]>

commit 92dd44e445b47ec80aca21fe48224484c384ba8b
Author: Ben Hutchings <[email protected]>
Date:   Sun May 3 15:14:59 2026 +0200

    unmkinitramfs: Make it compatible with Busybox cpio
    
    The miniramfs project creates smaller first-stage initramfs images
    that chain into the initramfs images created with initramfs-tools.  It
    uses Busybox cpio to unpack the second initramfs, which stopped
    working entirely since we split the contents across an uncompressed
    and compressed cpio archive.
    
    miniramfs would benefit from being able to run unmkinitramfs, but
    currently that doesn't work due to the use of GNU cpio options that
    Busybox cpio doesn't implement.  Fix that:
    
    --preserve-modification-time:
        Equivalent to -m, which Busybox cpio does support.  Use the
        short option instead.
    
    --no-absolute-filenames:
        Cannot be replaced.  Add a --trusted-image option to unmkinitramfs
        which disables passing this option to cpio.  Also disable it when
        listing.
    
    -D: Replace with a chdir() call before execve()'ing cpio.
    
    --list:
        Equivalent to -t, which Busybox cpio does support.  Use the
        short option instead.
    
    Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <[email protected]>

Created: 2026-05-06 Last update: 2026-11-10 07:02

There are 7 open merge requests for this package on Salsa. You should consider reviewing and/or merging these merge requests.

Created: 2026-11-05 Last update: 2026-11-05 03:00

Lintian reports 1 warning about this package. You should make the package lintian clean getting rid of them.

Created: 2026-02-16 Last update: 2026-02-16 19:32

The package should be updated to follow the last version of Debian Policy (Standards-Version 4.7.4 instead of 4.7.2).

Created: 2025-12-23 Last update: 2026-04-01 22:30