On Sat, 2026-09-05 at 18:16 +0200, Chris Hofstädtler wrote:
> Source: dracut
> Version: 112-2
> Severity: normal
>
> Hi,
>
> I've noticed that the individual dracut binary packages can be
> installed in mixed versions. I assume this is not a particularly
> well-tested situation.
>
> Many other source packages configure their binary packages with a
> strict version dependency.
>
> As an example, dracut-network currently has:
>
> Depends: dracut-core
>
> This allows a simultaneous installation of dracut-network 112-2 and
> dracut 106-6.
>
> If dracut-network were to switch to
>
> Depends: dracut-core (= ${binary:Version})
>
> Then apt would install the packages in lockstep, and no probably
> badly-supported situations would arise.
>
> Similar dependencies should probably be set in dracut, dracut-test,
> and maybe from dracut-core to dracut-install.
Thanks. I'll tighten the dependencies.
dracut already has:
Depends: dracut-core (<< ${binary:Version}+b+~),
dracut-core (>= ${binary:Version}),
This is needed because we have a mixture of architecture dependent and
architecture independent.
--
Benjamin Drung
Debian & Ubuntu Developer
