Dear Maintainer,

dracut may be used in minimal systems. If that is the case, dracut-core
drags in perl via pkg-config. However, it seems pkg-config is an
optional part of dracut (and is indeed not shipped as a dependency for
the RPM package if I read the upstream spec file correctly) and there is
fall-back support if pkg-config is not installed.

So it would be nice to demote pkg-config to Recommends in order to
support minimal systems that don't ship perl by default.


Michael

I've run "dracut --no-kernel" in a minimal lxc container, once with
pkg-config and once without and then diffoscope'd the two generated
initrds. Most of what diffoscope complains about are timestamp
differences in directories and symlinks which I don't know how to get
rid of, but there's some changes in etc/conf.d/systemd.conf that I have
attached. Not sure whether those are problematic?


Michael

Given that /usr/lib is the canonical path for these directories, and
/lib happens to be a symlink there, this should not be a problem.

If Thomas consents, I would make the change in experimental as well
and we will see how it works out. I do not see any reason not to
demote pkg-config.

Cheers,
Nik

    > If Thomas consents, I would make the change in experimental as well
    > and we will see how it works out. I do not see any reason not to
    > demote pkg-config.

Go for it.

To clarify, the above was done on bullseye, on a usrmerge system. I see
the same path changes in /etc/conf.d/systemd.conf if I try that on a
real bullseye system.

On a non-usrmerge buster system, diffoscope sees no such path
differences between a dracut run with or without pkg-config.


Michael

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
dracut, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 991920@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> (supplier of updated dracut package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Tue, 24 May 2022 21:29:13 +0200
Source: dracut
Architecture: source
Version: 056-3
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org>
Changed-By: Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org>
Closes: 987320 991918 991920
Changes:
 dracut (056-3) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * new upstream, Closes: #991918
   * control: Remove unnecessary constraints, demote pkg-config to
     Recommends, Closes: #991920
   * set Debian version in dracut-version.sh, Closes: #987320
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