Package: busybox
Version: 1:1.30.1-4
Severity: wishlist
lsblk is a very useful tool for understanding your current disks and block
devices. It can be used to
query lots of information including disk manufacturer, serial number, model
number, the structure of your disks if the disk is already in use for
another block device. Given that the installer has mission critical goals
associated with the disks, it's a bit of a mystery that lsblk isn't
included into the busy box implementation used in the installer. This is
especially important when seeding automatic/unattended installs for debian
since many of the seed files used will query information from disks in
scripts using the "d-i partman/early_command string" of debconf. I can see
that this issue has been raised in multiple places online: stack overflow,
IRC. However, scanning older tickets, I was not able to find a ticket
which raises the issue. Is there any reason that lsblk as a command is not
included? As far as I can tell, the bloat size would only be around 20-40
KiB in size. May I suggest that we start including the lsblk binaries in
the next versions of Debian?
