[Bug 1108987] [NEW] Package dracut cannot be installed on Ubuntu 12.10

2013-01-29 Thread Florian Feldhaus
Public bug reported: The package dracut cannot be installed on Ubuntu 12.10 as it conflicts with the initramfs-tools package. Due to the conflict, the package dracut can never be installed as initramfs-tools cannot be removed. In an answer to my question regarding this problem on askUbuntu [1] th

[Bug 1109029] Re: Depend on linux-initramfs-tools

2013-02-03 Thread Florian Feldhaus
I disagree. Dracut builds fine from source and builds initrds which are usable. As dracut offers additional features compared to initramfs-tools, it is required in certain use cases. As dracut can be installed in parallel to initramfs-tools without interfering with its functionality, this issue

[Bug 1109029] Re: Depend on linux-initramfs-tools

2013-02-03 Thread Florian Feldhaus
I disagree. Dracut builds fine from source and builds initrds which are usable. As dracut offers additional features compared to initramfs-tools, it is required in certain use cases. As dracut can be installed in parallel to initramfs-tools without interfering with its functionality, either this