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

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

tags 336721 wontfix
thanks
On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 06:34:09AM +0000, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> 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 OK, I guess in this case this bug report is obsolete...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.

Well, nothing uses it now, but it could and should be used by future 2.4.x
kernels, which altough are not high priority now, will still be needed for
etch.

Friendly,

Sven Luther