[Bug 1751184] Re: Plymouth initramfs hook needs missing dependancy fonts-dejavu-core so update-initramfs fails

[Jb]

Earlier in the install I see that it says it lists "fonts-deja" as a
*suggested* (but not installed) package.  fonts-deja includes fonts-
dejavu-core and fonts-dejavu-extra.

This should be bumped from a suggested package to a dependency.


Log entries (extra log lines removed to shorten log):
Feb 24 09:25:17 in-target: Suggested packages:
Feb 24 09:25:17 in-target:   default-mta | mail-transport-agent apparmor-profiles apparmor-profiles-extra
...
Feb 24 09:25:17 in-target:   network-manager-openvpn-gnome network-manager-vpnc-gnome
Feb 24 09:25:17 in-target:   network-manager-pptp-gnome fonts-dejavu libxml2-dev tint2 python

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Title:
  Plymouth initramfs hook needs missing dependancy fonts-dejavu-core so
  update-initramfs fails

Status in plymouth package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Missing font dependency --> plymouth initramfs hook fails --> update-
  initramfs fails --> new kernel failed to install.

  Bionic Lubuntu alternate 20180221

  update-initramfs -c -k all

  It gives an error:

  Rebuilding ramfs...be patient
  update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.13.0-32-generic
  cp: cannot stat '/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSerif.ttf': No such file or directory
  E: /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/plymouth failed with return 1.
  update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-4.13.0-32-generic with 1.

  I checked and the directory /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/ does
  not exist.

  Fyi...the 4.15 kernel just came out.  This caused the 4.15 kernel to
  fail to install.

  If I apt-get install fonts-dejavu-core it will work around this issue.

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