[Bug 2100618] Re: dracut install removes flash-kernel

[Dave Jones]

** Also affects: flash-kernel (Ubuntu Questing)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: dracut (Ubuntu Questing)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: flash-kernel (Ubuntu Questing)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Dave Jones (waveform)

** Changed in: flash-kernel (Ubuntu Questing)
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

** Changed in: flash-kernel (Ubuntu Questing)
       Status: New => Triaged

** Changed in: flash-kernel (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Triaged

** Changed in: flash-kernel (Ubuntu)
    Milestone: None => ubuntu-26.04

** Changed in: dracut (Ubuntu Questing)
       Status: New => Invalid

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Title:
  dracut install removes flash-kernel

Status in dracut package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in flash-kernel package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in dracut source package in Questing:
  Invalid
Status in flash-kernel source package in Questing:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Attempting to switch a plucky install on raspi to dracut attempts to
  remove flash-kernel (which is required to copy the generated initrd
  and other artifacts to the boot partition). This is because flash-
  kernel depends on initramfs-tools (which is going to be removed):

  $ sudo apt install dracut
  The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
    devio  libiniparser4  libraspberrypi0  libubootenv-tool  libubootenv0.1  mtd-utils  u-boot-tools
  Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.

  Installing:
    dracut

  Installing dependencies:
    dracut-core

  Suggested packages:
    dracut-network  dmraid

  REMOVING:
    cloud-initramfs-copymods  cloud-initramfs-dyn-netconf  flash-kernel  initramfs-tools  overlayroot  ubuntu-server  ubuntu-server-raspi

  
  Given dracut now contains drop-in replacements for the various binaries provided by initramfs-tools, could dracut simply "Provide: initramfs-tools" (as well as linux-initramfs-tool as it currently does)?

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