On 09/06/2026 at 16:43, Joshua Hudson wrote:
I wouldn't worry about not having dosfsck too much; it's nearly as
likely to damage the filesystem as to repair it.
Nobody seems to care but me.
I do care, but IMO the more serious bug reported in [1] should be fixed
first. Then, depending on the chosen solution, this bug can be fixed
appropriately. For example if we choose to enforce FAT on ESPs, then
"method = efi" is a sufficient condition to install dosfstools. In
addition, installing dosfstools if "method = efi" should be done in
partman-efi, not partman-basicfilesystems (like installing e2fsprogs for
ext3 and ext4 is done in partman-ext3).
[1]
<https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1099700>
<https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1114519>
<https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1121934>
