Re: Re: Kernel 6.9.9 (amd64) results in huge initrd / initramfs size
The Wanderer wrote:
> On 2024-07-18 at 13:50, Celejar wrote:
>
> > Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
>
> >> This is not the place for debugging Sid, I'm afraid, there are too
> >> few
> >
> > It's not? Where, then, is the place for debugging Sid?
>
> I'm no longer anything *close* to an expert in this area (having not run
> sid myself in well over a decade), but my understanding is: debugging
> sid is done in the BTS, collaboratively among Debian developers and that
> subset of non-DD users who run sid, and preferably involves those users
> investigating causes and filing bug reports with the results of those
> investigations.
>
> By taking on yourself the risk and burden of running sid, you are
> volunteering to be one of those who helps notice issues before they
> reach testing, and report those issues so that the machinery of the
> archive can stop the package versions which those issues from migrating
> to testing. Ideally, you are also volunteering to be one of those who
> helps the package maintainers track down and fix the issues.
>
> -- And, by doing that, you are volunteering to help protect those who do
> *not* run sid from having to encounter those issues. It's an admirable
> thing to do, really, if you have the time and energy and so forth to
> spare for it.
Done:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1076561
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Celejar
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