Bug#260068: initrd-tools: shoul mkinitrd use library reduction to reduce the size of the initrd ?

[Sven Luther <luther@debian.org>]

Package: initrd-tools
Version: 0.1.71
Severity: normal


In order to make the size of the initrd, library reduction could be used
to save space, as this is currently done for the debian-installer
initrd. I am not 100 % familiar with the process though, and there may
be some caeats i am not thinking about.

Friendly,

Sven Luther

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.7-powerpc
Locale: LANG=fr_FR@euro, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR@euro

Versions of packages initrd-tools depends on:
ii  coreutils [fileutils]         5.0.91-2   The GNU core utilities
ii  cpio                          2.5-1.1    GNU cpio -- a program to manage ar
ii  cramfsprogs                   1.1-6      Tools for CramFs (Compressed ROM F
ii  dash                          0.5.1-1    The Debian Almquist Shell
ii  util-linux                    2.12-7     Miscellaneous system utilities

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