Bug#1110909: release-notes: /boot needs less than 768 MB, contrary to claim in 5.1.5
Package: release-notes
Severity: normal
It gave me quite some trouble to fullfil the requirement of 768 MB for the boot
directory: changing partition layout, shrinking another filesystem etc. After
upgrade to trixie, `du -sh /boot` reports 90M, and I believe during the upgrade
disk usage for this directory never exceeded approx. 135 MB. I use booting with
efi stub, no boot manager. Also, there is no failsafe kernel with all modules
compiled in.
In my setup, /boot/efi is a separate, fat32 formatted partition. The sentence
that caused me to believe that /boot/efi also needs to be larger is "The Linux
kernel and firmware packages have increased considerably in size ...". However,
kernel and inital ramdisk have 12 MB each. Reading now, I observe that the title
refers to /boot, but the first sentence to the package size, which mostly ends
up not being stored under /boot. Hence, a little bit of a catch.
I suggest to replace the first sentence in section 5.1.5, referring to the size
of the kernel and firmware packages by a more precise observation on the size of
files installed under /boot, and under which condition (grub2 present?).
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