The testcase here doesn't seem to be working (or, rather, failing) for me, which makes it harder to investigate this. It passes on both sid and eoan for me:
(sid-amd64)root@nosferatu:~# dpkg -l \*klibc\*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-==============-============-============-===============================================
ii klibc-utils 2.0.7-1 amd64 small utilities built with klibc for early boot
ii libklibc:amd64 2.0.7-1 amd64 minimal libc subset for use with initramfs
(sid-amd64)root@nosferatu:~# /usr/lib/klibc/bin/losetup -vf
Loop device is /dev/loop0
/dev/loop0
(sid-amd64)root@nosferatu:~#
(eoan-amd64)root@nosferatu:~# dpkg -l \*klibc\*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-==============-==============-============-===============================================
ii klibc-utils 2.0.6-1ubuntu2 amd64 small utilities built with klibc for early boot
ii libklibc:amd64 2.0.6-1ubuntu2 amd64 minimal libc subset for use with initramfs
(eoan-amd64)root@nosferatu:~# /usr/lib/klibc/bin/losetup -vf
Loop device is /dev/loop0
/dev/loop0
(eoan-amd64)root@nosferatu:~#
The testcase here doesn't seem to be working (or, rather, failing) for me, which makes it harder to investigate this. It passes on both sid and eoan for me:
(sid-amd64) root@nosferatu: ~# dpkg -l \*klibc\* Unknown/ Install/ Remove/ Purge/Hold Not/Inst/ Conf-files/ Unpacked/ halF-conf/ Half-inst/ trig-aWait/ Trig-pend /Reinst- required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ======= ====-== ======= ===-=== ======= ==-==== ======= ======= ======= ======= ======= ======= = root@nosferatu: ~# /usr/lib/ klibc/bin/ losetup -vf root@nosferatu: ~#
Desired=
| Status=
|/ Err?=(none)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-===
ii klibc-utils 2.0.7-1 amd64 small utilities built with klibc for early boot
ii libklibc:amd64 2.0.7-1 amd64 minimal libc subset for use with initramfs
(sid-amd64)
Loop device is /dev/loop0
/dev/loop0
(sid-amd64)
(eoan-amd64) root@nosferatu: ~# dpkg -l \*klibc\* Unknown/ Install/ Remove/ Purge/Hold Not/Inst/ Conf-files/ Unpacked/ halF-conf/ Half-inst/ trig-aWait/ Trig-pend /Reinst- required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ======= ====-== ======= =====-= ======= ====-== ======= ======= ======= ======= ======= ======= === root@nosferatu: ~# /usr/lib/ klibc/bin/ losetup -vf root@nosferatu: ~#
Desired=
| Status=
|/ Err?=(none)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-===
ii klibc-utils 2.0.6-1ubuntu2 amd64 small utilities built with klibc for early boot
ii libklibc:amd64 2.0.6-1ubuntu2 amd64 minimal libc subset for use with initramfs
(eoan-amd64)
Loop device is /dev/loop0
/dev/loop0
(eoan-amd64)