Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.98.8 Severity: normal I recently suffered 2 weeks of downtime of a machine in a location that made fixing it hard, caused by a broken initramfs due to bug #621137. This highlighted to me that there are many things that can go wrong and break an initramfs when it is refreshed, not just when upgrading to a new kernel. And yet backup initramfses are not kept by default, except for ones that accompany old kernel versions. Space should not be a concern, since /boot is always provisioned with space for multiple kernel and initramfs pairs. So I feel that setting backup_initramfs=yes would be better than the current default, leading to more robust and recoverable systems. Thank you. -- see shy jo
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