initramfs-tools calls dpkg with obsolete parameter

[Eugene San]

 initramfs-tools calls dpkg with obsolete parameter:

...
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.103ubuntu16) ...
dpkg: warning: --compare-versions used with obsolete relation operator '>'
...

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

It looks like this is in update-initramfs:

255 for gsv_i in $version_list; do
256 if dpkg --compare-versions "${gsv_x}" '>' "${gsv_i}"; then
257 worklist="${worklist} ${gsv_x} ${gsv_i}"
258 gsv_x=""
259 else
260 worklist="${worklist} ${gsv_i}"

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

The version in wily proposed still seems to use the '>'.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package initramfs-tools - 0.120ubuntu2

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initramfs-tools (0.120ubuntu2) wily; urgency=medium

    * update-initramfs: switch dpkg --compare-versions from > to >=
      to avoid warnings from dpkg. (LP: #1480340)
    * debian/control: update Vcs-* links for Ubuntu.
    * scripts/functions: use :> rather than touch to create fsck
      stamp. (LP: #1481789)
    * hooks/busybox: revert local changes, these now need to occur
      in the new late zz-busybox-initramfs hook. (LP: #1481733)

 -- Andy Whitcroft <email address hidden> Wed, 05 Aug 2015 13:02:34 +0100