Re: dracut: update to 059.20231027

[zdykstra <zdykstra@users.noreply.github.com>]

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New comment by zdykstra on void-packages repository

https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/46936#issuecomment-1783836760

Comment:
> > I'm not seeing anything in the linked issue that indicates why releases are stalled. Is there an issue I can follow that tracks that problem?
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> This is indeed the key issue here. I think @ahesford 's comment is already a great summary of the situation, but just to add...
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> > Currently only Github project admins can tag git commits in this project. The current project admins are documented in the wiki - https://github.com/dracutdevs/dracut/wiki/Dracut-development
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> At closer look you would notice that none of the project admins are active, and the remaining active maintainers are not able to make a tagged release. Here is one more pointer of a failed release attempt from July: [dracutdevs/dracut#2444](https://github.com/dracutdevs/dracut/issues/2444)
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> > If this problem continues indefinitely, we can investigate other alternatives for keeping Dracut up to date.
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> I just wanted to get a sense of how much this community is willing to wait for a release for something as critical to the boot process of the system. I think it is reasonable to revisit this issue in e.g. in 2024.

Right now, I think Void is pretty comfortable with the version of Dracut that we ship. Our tooling is more-or-less stable, so we aren't having to chase any systemd behavioral changes. We use an older EFI stub for UKI's, so the recent systemd-boot stub change didn't impact us.

For my needs (Dracut user, ZFSBootMenu developer), Dracut as it stands is a stable tool that has quirks that are known and can be targeted.