Bug#894968: initramfs-tools-core: update-initramfs depends on busybox, but the package doesn't

[Remi Broemeling]

Package: initramfs-tools-core
Version: 0.130
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

   * What led up to the situation?

 Context is that this is a minimally-installed chroot (minimally installed 
with `debootstrap`)
 containing stretch.

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
 ineffective)?

 Attempted to use `apt-get` to install the following package list with
 '--no-install-recommends' specified:
   cryptsetup
   firmware-bnx2
   firmware-bnx2x
   firmware-linux
   grub-pc
   linux-image-amd64
   lvm2
   openssh-server
   sudo

   * What was the outcome of this action?

 During the `apt-get` processing of the above package list, 
`update-initramfs` died with an error:

   E: busybox or busybox-static, version 1:1.22.0-17~ or later, is required 
but not installed.

   * What outcome did you expect instead?

 I expected it to work -- if `update-initramfs` depends on busybox or 
busybox-static in order to
 complete successfully, then those packages should be a _dependency_, not a 
_recommendation_!

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.4
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-6-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), 
LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages initramfs-tools-core depends on:
ii  cpio 2.11+dfsg-6
ii  klibc-utils  2.0.4-9
ii  kmod 23-2
ii  udev 232-25+deb9u2

Versions of packages initramfs-tools-core recommends:
ii  busybox  1:1.22.0-19+b3

Versions of packages initramfs-tools-core suggests:
pn  bash-completion  

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Bug#750806: s3cmd experimental package (1.5.0~20140213-1) spurious dependency error on debian wheezy

[Remi Broemeling]

Package: s3cmd
Version: 1.5.0~20140213-1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

The s3cmd package in experimental (version 1.5.0~20140213-1 at time of writing) 
is not installable
on Debian Wheezy, though it appears that it should be.

When installation is attempted, a rather spurious-looking python version 
warning is shown:

(Reading database ... 68587 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace s3cmd 1.1.0~beta3-1 (using s3cmd_1.5.0~20140213-1_all.deb) 
...
Unpacking replacement s3cmd ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of s3cmd:
 s3cmd depends on python:any (= 2.6.6-7~).

dpkg: error processing s3cmd (--install):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 s3cmd

The error is spurious because Debian Wheezy satisfies the requirement, having 
python:all 2.7.3-4+deb7u1 installed:

[21:46:28][remi@foo:/tmp]$ dpkg -l python
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name   VersionArchitecture Description
+++-==-==--=
ii  python 2.7.3-4+deb7u1 all  interactive high-level object-oriented 
language (default version)

When force-installed (via --force-depends), the package seems to work fine.

Thanks,

Remi

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.5
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages s3cmd depends on:
pn  python:any  none

s3cmd recommends no packages.

s3cmd suggests no packages.

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