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Bug#1114857: Switch default initramfs builder to dracut

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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.

Ben.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: forky/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.16.3+deb14-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

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Bug#1114857: Switch default initramfs builder to dracut Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2025-09-10 22:20 +0200

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