Package: sg3-utils-udev
Version: 1.45-1
Severity: minor

Starting bullseye, sg3-utils-udev requires (depends) on initramfs-tools[-core].
But it does not *use* any of the functionality of this package, except of
_extending_ initramfs-tools.

This dependency forces us to invent more and more dummy versions of
initramfs packages in order just to use core system functionality
(eg multipath-tools now depends on sg3-utils-udev which can not be
installed without initramfs-tools which breaks (replaces) our boot
infrastructure).

For now we installed an empty initramfs-tools-core-dummy package just
to be able to use multipath-tools and not break our systems.

Please note there's no mention of this new dependency in the changelog,
but it makes major issue for ones who does not use initramfs-tools.

Thank you!

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