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/aa27862b9f6f684e69f4ae91280908a65b46bfa9 Should we track a fixed version accordingly even if more work has to be done to switch to dracut by default? Regards, Salvatore
