Bug#336721: Confusion regarding ramdisk Provides; is initrd-tools still supported?

[Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>]

retitle 336721 Please remove unused Provides
severity 336721 minor
thanks

* Jurij Smakov <jurij@wooyd.org> [2005-10-31 22:10]:
> As far as I can tell, this is correct. Initrds for current kernels
> *must* be generated using either yaird or initramfs-tools (both of
> which are experimental software, by the way), since devfs support
> was dropped in 2.6.13 and initrd-tools rely heavily on it.

Thanks, Horms just reminded me of this fact... this makes sense.

OK, I guess in this case this bug report is obsolete... however, given
that nothing uses initrd-tools's Provides of 'linux-initrd-tool', I
suggest this to be removed.

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Martin Michlmayr
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