Bug#1144875: initramfs-tools: should check for the config file in /lib/modules/${version}/config

From	Aurelien Jarno <aurel32@debian.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.kernel
Subject	Bug#1144875: initramfs-tools: should check for the config file in /lib/modules/${version}/config
Date	2026-08-19 18:20 +0200
Message-ID	<NtRbb-bUSn-9@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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Package: initramfs-tools
Version: 0.151
Severity: important

Starting with src:linux 7.2, the kernel config file is moved to
/lib/modules/${version}/config instead of /boot/config-${version} [1].
This causes initramfs-tools to emit a warning when generating the
initrd:

| W: Kernel configuration /boot/config-7.2+unreleased-riscv64 is missing, zstd compression support (CONFIG_RD_ZSTD) cannot be checked and is assumed to be available

initramfs-tools actually looks in /lib/modules/${version}, but expect
the config file to be named config-${version}. This need to be updated.

Alternatively, as dracut is now the default initrd generator, maybe
support for initramfs-tools should be removed from the src:linux
package.

[1] https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/-/commit/4b94722d0432685c2249a34ff753319eb161f30a

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Bug#1144875: initramfs-tools: should check for the config file in /lib/modules/${version}/config Aurelien Jarno <aurel32@debian.org> - 2026-08-19 18:20 +0200
  Bug#1144875: initramfs-tools: should check for the config file in /lib/modules/${version}/config Chris Hofstaedtler <zeha@debian.org> - 2026-08-19 19:00 +0200
    Bug#1144875: initramfs-tools: should check for the config file in /lib/modules/${version}/config Aurelien Jarno <aurel32@debian.org> - 2026-08-19 21:40 +0200
  Processed: Re: Bug#1144875: initramfs-tools: should check for the  config file in /lib/modules/${version}/config "Debian Bug Tracking System" <owner@bugs.debian.org> - 2026-08-19 21:40 +0200

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