Comment 6 for bug 1554455

Why is this still an issue? Why is it not resolved? It's been 2 years?

Consider this simple scenario right now as I apt-get autoremove and it removes 4 old kernels. It also keeps 3 kernels.

Generating the initrd for a single kernel takes ballpark 45 seconds.

First step: remove one kernel and generate 6 (!!) initrds.
Second step: remove another kernel. Generate 5 (!!) initrds.
Step 3: remove another kernel. Generate 4 initrds.
Step 4: remove fourth kernel. Generate 3 initrds.

Final count: 18 initrds generated. That takes 13 minutes!

It really only needed to generate 3, if that!