Package: multipath-tools Severity: important Dear Maintainer,
*** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? I'm SystemImager developper, a software that is based on dracut. SystemImager is an imaging software mainly targetted at cluster deployment. As such it makes use of multipathd if required. dracut is shipped with a multipathd module, unfortunately, multipath-tools has dependancies that will conflict with dracut while it is unnecessary. * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? Installed multipath-tools using: apt-get install --no-install-suggests multipath-tools * What was the outcome of this action? dracut was replaced with initramfs-tools because sg3-utils-udev is required by multipath-tools and sg3-utils-udev conflicts with dracut * What outcome did you expect instead? It should be possible to install multipath-tools and use it with dracut. In other words, it should be possible to do: apt-get install multipath-tools dracut *** End of the template - remove these template lines *** -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.6 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.9.125-linuxkit (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968), LANGUAGE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: unable to detect Versions of packages multipath-tools depends on: ii init-system-helpers 1.48 ii kpartx 0.6.4-5+deb9u1 pn libaio1 <none> ii libc6 2.24-11+deb9u3 ii libdevmapper1.02.1 2:1.02.137-2 pn librados2 <none> ii libreadline7 7.0-3 ii libsystemd0 232-25+deb9u6 ii libudev1 232-25+deb9u6 pn liburcu4 <none> ii lsb-base 9.20161125 pn sg3-utils-udev <none> ii udev 232-25+deb9u6 multipath-tools recommends no packages. Versions of packages multipath-tools suggests: pn multipath-tools-boot <none>