Bug#444825: Upgrade busybox ?

Package: busybox
Version: 1:1.1.3-5
Severity: wishlist

    Is there a good reason not to upgrade busybox to the latest version ?

    I've compiled svn version 20150 with the same applets plus eject, fdflush,   fdformat, fdisk, halt, insmod, lsmod, mkswap, poweroff, reboot, rmmod   and the total is 5448 bytes smaller on AMD64 (514088 instead of 519536).   The applets are more complete in the recent versions, the only thing that   disapperead are the e2fs utils which are not compiled in anyway.

    Full disclosure: I have a vested interest in the upgrade (I use ubuntu as   "portable linux" and the recent busybox allows for a smaller initrd, and   Ubuntu would consider the upgrade more easily if it were first tested in   Debian !).

     Thank you,

          Loïc Grenié Received on Mon Oct 1 06:11:44 2007