Hi, DebConf10 in New York goes towards its end those minutes and as a result we just uploaded initramfs-tools 0.98 to Debian/unstable. Most notably are improvements with regards to failures during build/hook time, some reverted nounsets and added support for (absolute) symlinks for the init binary. shortlog has the details: Michael Prokop (14): fix typos in manpage, scripts/functions and conf/initramfs.conf - thanks lintian debian/NEWS: drop asterisk chars to make lintian happy install doc-base file for doc-base-registration add debian/source/format with "3.0 (native)" to make lintian happy maintainer-notes: document "git remote prune origin" maintainer-notes: use git config instead of environment variables some minor rewording of sentences about development mailinglists mkinitramfs: do not execute compress command under quotes update-initramfs: stop buildprocess if any script is failing init: provide validate_init() wrapper to support absolute symlinks. init: provide fastforward path for the common case when validating init binary. Merge branch 'maks/bootloader' Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.1. release 0.98 Stephen Powell (2): postinst hook: respect INITRD variable Redirect STDOUT to STDERR for post{inst,rm} hooks maximilian attems (21): mkinitramfs: set nounset and errexit reportbug: list the mkinitramfs hook scripts of reporting box initramfs-tools.8: Enhance documentation of boot option update-initramfs: run_bootloader() return after zipl and flash-kernel mkinitramfs: Fix missing compress quotings mkinitramfs: Fix missing compress quotings release 0.97.1 initramfs-tools: output name of script that errexits. initramfs-tools: output name of script that errexits. release 0.97.2 mkinitramfs: set COMPRESS=gzip to be more consistent. control: conform to latest policy without changes mkinitramfs: Provide error code of failed mkinitramfs creation revert mkinitramfs errexit and nounset Maintainer notes document dev mailinglists maintainer notes: underline that mail to one of the 2 lists is good Merge branch 'maks/hooks' Merge branch 'sid' update-initramfs: revert nounset initramfs-tools: only allow hook scripts to errexit on mkinitramfs update-initramfs: run_bootloader() invoke Initramfs hooks regards, -mika-
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