Support Dracut as alternative initrd tool

[Benjamin Drung]

We want to switch to Dracut. See https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/spec-switch-to-dracut/54776

So please support dracut as alternative to initramfs-tools. Following binary packages depend on initramfs-tools:

* ubuntu-budgie-desktop
* ubuntu-budgie-desktop-minimal
* ubuntucinnamon-desktop
* ubuntucinnamon-desktop-minimal

Following binary packages recommend initramfs-tools:

* ubuntu-desktop
* ubuntu-desktop-minimal
* ubuntu-mate-core
* ubuntu-mate-desktop
* ubuntukylin-desktop
* ubuntukylin-desktop-minimal

Please change their dependency/recommendation to "initramfs-tools | dracut"

[Benjamin Drung (bdrung)]

germinate needs to learn to support alternatives in recommends.

[Benjamin Drung (bdrung)]

I prepared ubuntu-meta 1.545 which I created with the modified germinate and faked dracut being in main. The newly add dracut should pull it into main.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package ubuntu-meta - 1.545

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ubuntu-meta (1.545) plucky; urgency=medium

  * Refreshed dependencies
  * Added dracut as alternative to initramfs-tools to desktop-minimal-recommends
    (LP: #2097623)

 -- Benjamin Drung <email address hidden> Mon, 10 Feb 2025 14:15:47 +0000

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package germinate - 2.46

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germinate (2.46) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Benjamin Drung ]
  * Add new helper function _split_alternatives
  * Support alternatives in recommends (LP: #2097623)

 -- Julian Andres Klode <email address hidden> Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:12:31 +0100