Perhaps I'm Paranoid - Mint Hacked + /boot/initrd.img

[rfengineer]

Perhaps I'm just a wee bit paranoid, but given the recent mint hack, and given that I use mint
almost exclusively, I'm paying closer attention to things.

Today, I downloaded youtube-dl from the normal repository, and it stuck me oddly that a
program designed to download videos would need to make changes to the way the
machine boots.

Is this normal? It may be mundane, but frankly I don't know.

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After this operation, 1,106 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up base-files (7.2ubuntu5.4) ...

Configuration file '/etc/lsb-release'
==> Modified (by you or by a script) since installation.
==> Package distributor has shipped an updated version.
What would you like to do about it ? Your options are:
Y or I : install the package maintainer's version
N or O : keep your currently-installed version
D : show the differences between the versions
Z : start a shell to examine the situation
The default action is to keep your current version.
*** lsb-release (Y/I/N/O/D/Z) [default=N] ? y
Installing new version of config file /etc/lsb-release ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/os-release ...
Processing triggers for mintsystem (7.9.7+1) ...
Processing triggers for plymouth-theme-ubuntu-text (0.8.8-0ubuntu17.1) ...
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.103ubuntu4.2) ...

update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.13.0-37-generic <<<----------------Note Here

Selecting previously unselected package youtube-dl.
(Reading database ... 231191 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../youtube-dl_2014.02.17-1_all.deb ...
Unpacking youtube-dl (2014.02.17-1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.6.7.1-1ubuntu1) ...
Setting up youtube-dl (2014.02.17-1) ...

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[dstftw]

What was the command?

[phihag]

A previous installation was interrupted, so apt-get is resuming it. Note Processing triggers for mintsystem (7.9.7+1) ..., which is one of the packages that wasn't fully installed the last time. Therefore, this is a normal artifact of package installation, and completely unrelated to youtube-dl.

Note that the youtube-dl version is heavily outdated though - for instance, you won't be able to download music videos on YouTube. See our FAQ for ways to update.