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Reinhard Tartler (siretart) wrote : Re: [Bug 244284] [NEW] single argument version of copy_exec works correctly from version 0.88 of initramfs-tools

James Westby <email address hidden> writes:

> cryptsetup's diff from Debian currently changes some uses of
> copy_exec to use the two argument form, as the single argument
> form didn't use to work.
>
> Since version 0.88 of initramfs-tools the two argument version
> works correctly, and the Debian package of cryptsetup has a versioned
> dependency that will ensure that this will work, so the difference
> can be dropped with the next update.

except that this makes backporting the package (e.g. to hardy)
harder. I'm inclined to keep the diff in order to avoid the versioned
runtime dependency.

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