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   From: carnil@debian.org   
      
   Hi,   
      
   On Wed, Sep 10, 2025 at 10:11:40PM +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote:   
   > Source: linux   
   > Version: 6.16.5-1   
   > Severity: wishlist   
   >   
   > The kernel team has decided, together with the dracut maintainers, to   
   > switch the default initramfs builder to dracut during the forky   
   > release cycle, and ideally quite soon.   
   >   
   > This means that:   
   >   
   >     Depends: initramfs-tools | linux-initramfs-tool   
   >   
   > will be replaced by:   
   >   
   >     Depends: dracut | initramfs-tools | linux-initramfs-tool   
   >   
   > (with appropriate minimum versions).  There is no plan to force a   
   > switch to dracut during an upgrade, but new installations with d-i   
   > should include dracut.   
   >   
   > It appears that flash-kernel and possibly other packages will need to   
   > be updated to support dracut.  Those bugs will be added as blockers   
   > for this one.   
      
   We have already uploaded this switch with   
   https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/-/commit/aa27862b9f6f   
   84e69f4ae91280908a65b46bfa9   
      
   Should we track a fixed version accordingly even if more work has to   
   be done to switch to dracut by default?   
      
   Regards,   
   Salvatore   
      
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