Package: busybox Version: 1:1.38.0-1 Severity: normal There's no real useful purpose in having static version of busybox in 2020s. Maybe it was a good idea back in 1990s, when systems were very different, filesystems were much less reliable, and so on. But even at that time, keeping extra rescue tools always installed on the system was very uncommon.
Busybox is used in initrd. Static build of busybox conflicts with regular build, because both provides the same binary ([/usr]/bin/busybox). Now, when static build is installed, this static build will be used in initrd too. So initrd, which is supposed to be small, now includes one more copy of glibc - the one built into busybox-static. This is absurd. Instead of trying to fix busybox & busybox-static co-existance, at this point it is more useful to drop busybox-static entirely.
