[OT] initramfstools 0.144 safe to use?

[Martin Steigerwald <martin@lichtvoll.de>]

Hi!

Bug#1079273: initramfs-tools: Error with initramfs-tools during apt full-
upgrade on Debian Sid and reiserfsck

https://bugs.debian.org/1079273


To me it appears it may not be able to generate the initrd not only with 
reiserfsck but maybe also depending on some other tools that may need to 
be installed. dmraid is mentioned in a comment to the bug. Maybe it only 
affects these two, which I do not have installed. /usr/sbin/fsck.ext4 is 
sym-linked to /usr/sbin/e2fsck but this is already the binary, so I bet 
that would not count as too many levels.

Just as a cautionary warning. Maybe it is no issue for your system. I 
decided to wait a bit. Especially as there are already 2 other bugs merged 
with this one. But these are related to reiserfsck as well.

If someone takes the plunge and upgrades to initramfstools 0.144 and it 
works, please let me know.

Please let me know in case you do not want this kind of a warning here. It 
is off topic, I know. But as the kmod warning really was helpful to me, I 
thought I just write this mail. This does not seem to be as severe as the 
kmod thing however.

Best,
-- 
Martin