Bug#1028267: initscripts: runs fsck unconditionally but does not depends on e2fsprogs

[Mark Hindley]

On Mon, Jan 09, 2023 at 12:57:53AM +0100, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Jan 2023, Lorenzo Puliti wrote:
> 
> >This package "only" recommands e2fsprogs, so I think it should just
> 
> fsck is util-linux, not e2fsprogs.

Yes, but fsck.ext4 is e2fsprogs and that is what is missing in #1028181.

A clean way of handling missing filesystem-specific fsck isn't immediately
apparent to me. fsck doesn't distinguish a missing filesystem-specific checker
from other operational errors.

Mark