Bug#1114857: Switch default initramfs builder to dracut

[Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>]

Hi,

On Wed, Sep 10, 2025 at 10:11:40PM +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> Source: linux
> Version: 6.16.5-1
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> The kernel team has decided, together with the dracut maintainers, to
> switch the default initramfs builder to dracut during the forky
> release cycle, and ideally quite soon.
> 
> This means that:
> 
>     Depends: initramfs-tools | linux-initramfs-tool
> 
> will be replaced by:
> 
>     Depends: dracut | initramfs-tools | linux-initramfs-tool
> 
> (with appropriate minimum versions).  There is no plan to force a
> switch to dracut during an upgrade, but new installations with d-i
> should include dracut.
> 
> It appears that flash-kernel and possibly other packages will need to
> be updated to support dracut.  Those bugs will be added as blockers
> for this one.

We have already uploaded this switch with
https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/-/commit/aa27862b9f6f684e69f4ae91280908a65b46bfa9

Should we track a fixed version accordingly even if more work has to
be done to switch to dracut by default?

Regards,
Salvatore