Package: dracut https://salsa.debian.org/debian/dracut/-/blob/master/debian/patches/dev-shm-mount patch was created to resolve https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=637286 more than a decade ago.
Since then it seems there was a change and the bug for "/dev/shm a symlink to /run/shm, should be other way round" filed 5 years ago - https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=851427. >From what I can see, dropping the dev-shm-mount dracut patch would implement the "/run/shm symlink to /dev/shm" behaviour. That would mean less inconsistencies and less debian patches. Is there a particular reason to continue to carry this patch around for dracut ? What is the behaviour with initramfs-tools and systemd ? Thanks, Laszlo