Bug#1063775: Plymouth, and cp: warning: behavior of -n is non-portable and may change in future; use --update=none instead

[Jeffrey Walton]

Package: plymouth
Version: 24.004.60-1
Tags: trixie

This is just a heads up. Maybe to get out in front of things...

I just performed an 'aptitude safe-upgrade' on a Debian Unstable
machine. When the Plymouth installer ran, it produced 50 or so of
these:

Setting up plymouth (24.004.60-1) ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-6.5.0-5-amd64
cp: warning: behavior of -n is non-portable and may change in future;
use --update=none instead
cp: warning: behavior of -n is non-portable and may change in future;
use --update=none instead
cp: warning: behavior of -n is non-portable and may change in future;
use --update=none instead
cp: warning: behavior of -n is non-portable and may change in future;
use --update=none instead
...

I'm not sure how '--update=none' is more portable than '-n'. It seems
like '--update=none' would be less portable (to me). But nevertheless,
there's lots of warnings during the upgrade.

-----
$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Debian
Description: Debian GNU/Linux trixie/sid
Release: n/a
Codename: trixie
-----
$ apt-cache show plymouth
Package: plymouth
Version: 24.004.60-1
Installed-Size: 758
Maintainer: Laurent Bigonville <***@debian.org>
Architecture: amd64
...
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/p/plymouth/plymouth_24.004.60-1_amd64.deb
Size: 140764
MD5sum: 32f3d19c3cb53480ffee9c0156a60de4
SHA256: c5ee6a2708d6f92054cc4b6110d3b6026f1a31119b26ab3f86747f9fab6807cc

[Jeffrey Walton]

I think I incorrectly attributed the warnings to the Plymouth package.
I now think this is an issue with update-initramfs. I saw the warnings
again when manually running initramfs-tools.

My apologies if I got the package wrong (again).

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# apt-cache show initramfs-tools
Package: initramfs-tools
Version: 0.142
Installed-Size: 113
Maintainer: Debian kernel team <debian-***@lists.debian.org>
Architecture: all
Provides: linux-initramfs-tool
...
Section: utils
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/i/initramfs-tools/initramfs-tools_0.142_all.deb
Size: 72864
MD5sum: b00b1c4ad31046ed1f80852bf20161f2
SHA256: dd1b867f0000d967471b0f775fdb3b4a534d4ae70bdb56a93b1ffcf60965813b

[Jeffrey Walton]

This issue is likely Debian Bug #62572. Also see
<https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=62572>.

(Thanks Wesley).

[Wesley Schwengle]

Small update on the previous message.

It's the same as Debian #1055694, which is upstream bug

https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=62572


Cheers,
Wesley

[Ben Hutchings]

Control: reassign -1 klibc-utils
Control: close -1 2.0.13-4

Post by Jeffrey Walton
Package: plymouth
Version: 24.004.60-1
Tags: trixie
This is just a heads up. Maybe to get out in front of things...
I just performed an 'aptitude safe-upgrade' on a Debian Unstable
machine. When the Plymouth installer ran, it produced 50 or so of
Setting up plymouth (24.004.60-1) ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-6.5.0-5-amd64
cp: warning: behavior of -n is non-portable and may change in future;
use --update=none instead
cp: warning: behavior of -n is non-portable and may change in future;
use --update=none instead
cp: warning: behavior of -n is non-portable and may change in future;
use --update=none instead
cp: warning: behavior of -n is non-portable and may change in future;
use --update=none instead

[...]

This is a duplicate of bug #1055694, which was fixed some time ago.

Ben.