• Re: Offer help on initramfs-tools

    From Michael Prokop@21:1/5 to All on Wed Mar 13 12:40:01 2024
    Hi!

    * Benjamin Drung [Wed Mar 06, 2024 at 11:45:38AM +0100]:

    initramfs-tools hasn't seen an upload since 2022-07-12 and has several
    open merge requests without response. Since I am maintaining initramfs-
    tools in Ubuntu, I offer my help on initramfs-tools in Debian. In case I became uploader, I would merge the fixes and uncontroversial changes and
    cut a release.

    For various reasons I am personally no longer really active in
    initramfs-tools (i-t) development, but since nobody else responded
    to you yet: thanks for your work and efforts and reaching out, *I*
    think any contributions and work around i-t are more than welcome.

    One change that we did in Ubuntu recently is using dracut-install which speeds up the initramfs generation a lot:
    https://launchpad.net/bugs/2031185
    Do you want to have that in Debian as well?

    Sounds great to me! :)

    regards
    -mika-

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