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generic modular initramfs generator (automation)

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general
  • source: initramfs-tools (main)
  • version: 0.150
  • maintainer: Debian kernel team (archive) (DMD)
  • uploaders: Michael Prokop [DMD] – Ben Hutchings [DMD]
  • arch: all any
  • std-ver: 4.7.2
  • VCS: Git (Browse, QA)
versions [more versions can be listed by madison] [old versions available from snapshot.debian.org]
[pool directory]
  • o-o-stable: 0.140
  • oldstable: 0.142+deb12u3
  • stable: 0.148.3
  • testing: 0.150
  • unstable: 0.150
versioned links
  • 0.140: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
  • 0.142+deb12u3: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
  • 0.148.3: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
  • 0.150: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
binaries
  • initramfs-tools (87 bugs: 0, 40, 47, 0)
  • initramfs-tools-bin
  • initramfs-tools-core (20 bugs: 0, 6, 14, 0)
action needed
1 bug tagged help in the BTS normal
The BTS contains 1 bug tagged help, please consider helping the maintainer in dealing with it.
Created: 2019-03-21 Last update: 2025-11-24 18:00
22 bugs tagged patch in the BTS normal
The BTS contains patches fixing 22 bugs (23 if counting merged bugs), consider including or untagging them.
Created: 2025-01-06 Last update: 2025-11-24 18:00
5 new commits since last upload, is it time to release? normal
vcswatch reports that this package seems to have new commits in its VCS but has not yet updated debian/changelog. You should consider updating the Debian changelog and uploading this new version into the archive.

Here are the relevant commit logs:
commit 8c65a4965ee3529288c88565c7715692bfcd3422
Merge: af837b1 a378364
Author: Ben Hutchings <benh@debian.org>
Date:   Sun Nov 16 17:28:51 2025 +0100

    Merge branch 'wrap-and-sort' into 'debian/latest'
    
    Run wrap-and-sort
    
    See merge request kernel-team/initramfs-tools!185

commit af837b1650a44bc7e80ee4a34cc842069f54dcd1
Merge: 26e666f 7d68e10
Author: Ben Hutchings <benh@debian.org>
Date:   Sun Nov 16 16:54:59 2025 +0100

    Merge branch 'shellcheck' into 'debian/latest'
    
    silence incorrect shellcheck SC2329
    
    See merge request kernel-team/initramfs-tools!189

commit 7d68e103cc9d2ea0216eeae50caa6bdd2859ad98
Author: Benjamin Drung <benjamin.drung@canonical.com>
Date:   Wed Nov 12 13:00:53 2025 +0100

    Fix shellcheck SC2268
    
    shellcheck 0.11.0 complains:
    
    ```
    In debian/initramfs-tools.postinst line 6:
    if [ "x$1" != xtriggered ]; then
         ^---^ SC2268 (style): Avoid x-prefix in comparisons as it no longer serves a purpose.
    
    Did you mean:
    if [ "$1" != triggered ]; then
    ```

commit 813886bbb373cffa1beee8d2ef61fe203fd1b71a
Author: Benjamin Drung <benjamin.drung@canonical.com>
Date:   Wed Nov 12 12:59:08 2025 +0100

    silence incorrect shellcheck SC2329
    
    shellcheck 0.11.0 complains:
    
    ```
    In hooks/fsck line 57:
                            fstype() { "/usr/lib/klibc/bin/fstype" "$@"; }
                            ^-- SC2329 (info): This function is never invoked. Check usage (or ignored if invoked indirectly).
    
    In ./mkinitramfs line 288:
    clean_on_exit() {
    ^-- SC2329 (info): This function is never invoked. Check usage (or ignored if invoked indirectly).
    
    In debian/tests/unmkinitramfs line 44:
    no_compressor() {
    ^-- SC2329 (info): This function is never invoked. Check usage (or ignored if invoked indirectly).
    ```

commit a378364705512bfcd9dbe0367ff6e8ca97327983
Author: Benjamin Drung <benjamin.drung@canonical.com>
Date:   Wed Aug 13 11:35:13 2025 +0200

    Run wrap-and-sort
    
    Run `wrap-and-sort`.
Created: 2025-11-16 Last update: 2025-11-23 21:02
4 open merge requests in Salsa normal
There are 4 open merge requests for this package on Salsa. You should consider reviewing and/or merging these merge requests.
Created: 2025-08-19 Last update: 2025-11-16 19:01
news
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  • [2025-09-16] initramfs-tools 0.150 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2025-08-13] Accepted initramfs-tools 0.150 (source) into unstable (Ben Hutchings)
  • [2025-07-05] initramfs-tools 0.148.3 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2025-06-29] Accepted initramfs-tools 0.148.3 (source) into unstable (Ben Hutchings)
  • [2025-06-18] initramfs-tools 0.148.2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2025-06-12] Accepted initramfs-tools 0.148.2 (source) into unstable (Ben Hutchings)
  • [2025-06-12] Accepted initramfs-tools 0.149 (source) into experimental (Ben Hutchings)
  • [2025-06-08] initramfs-tools 0.148.1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2025-06-02] Accepted initramfs-tools 0.148.1 (source) into unstable (Ben Hutchings)
  • [2025-06-02] Accepted initramfs-tools 0.148 (all amd64 source) into unstable (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Ben Hutchings)
  • [2025-05-03] Accepted initramfs-tools 0.142+deb12u2 (source) into proposed-updates (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Ben Hutchings)
  • [2025-05-03] Accepted initramfs-tools 0.142+deb12u3 (source) into proposed-updates (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Ben Hutchings)
  • [2025-04-02] initramfs-tools 0.147 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2025-03-28] Accepted initramfs-tools 0.147 (source) into unstable (Ben Hutchings)
  • [2025-03-02] Accepted initramfs-tools 0.146 (source) into unstable (Ben Hutchings)
  • [2024-08-29] initramfs-tools 0.145 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2024-08-29] initramfs-tools 0.145 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2024-08-25] Accepted initramfs-tools 0.142+deb12u1 (source) into proposed-updates (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Ben Hutchings)
  • [2024-08-22] Accepted initramfs-tools 0.145 (source) into unstable (Ben Hutchings)
  • [2024-08-22] Accepted initramfs-tools 0.144 (source) into unstable (Ben Hutchings)
  • [2024-07-28] Accepted initramfs-tools 0.143.1 (source) into unstable (Ben Hutchings)
  • [2024-06-01] Accepted initramfs-tools 0.143 (source) into experimental (Ben Hutchings)
  • [2022-07-18] initramfs-tools 0.142 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2022-07-12] Accepted initramfs-tools 0.142 (source) into unstable (Ben Hutchings)
  • [2022-04-16] initramfs-tools 0.141 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2022-04-10] Accepted initramfs-tools 0.141 (source) into unstable (Ben Hutchings)
  • [2021-04-11] initramfs-tools 0.140 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2021-03-13] Accepted initramfs-tools 0.140 (source) into unstable (Bastian Blank)
  • [2020-09-19] initramfs-tools 0.139 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2020-09-13] Accepted initramfs-tools 0.139 (source) into unstable (Ben Hutchings)
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bugs [bug history graph]
  • all: 108 116
  • RC: 0
  • I&N: 42 46
  • M&W: 66 70
  • F&P: 0
  • patch: 22 23
  • help: 1
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