Actually, on further investigation, the package at fault is 'iscan-
data', which is third party. apparently it has some buggy hooks or
something.
upon removing iscan, iscan-data, and anything else up the dependency
chain, the update works.
** Changed in: initramfs-tools (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Invalid
** Changed in: initramfs-tools (Ubuntu)
Status: Invalid => New
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update-initramfs crashes with circular dependency on linux-image update
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/616479
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