Who maintains initramfs-tools?

[Ben Collins]

On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 09:08 -0500, Paul Albrecht wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 07:31 -0600, Tim Gardner wrote: 
> > Paul Albrecht wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > Who maintains the initramfs-tools package?
> > > 
> > 
> > >From the changelog I see 5 different people for the last 5 uploads. What
> > do you need?
> > 
> 
> I hacked initramfs-tools so I could run ubuntu on a 2 gigabyte partition
> and I was wondering whether it was worthwhile pushing the changes
> upstream.
> 
> What I do specifically is first install ubuntu on a 8 gigabyte flash
> disk. Then I further configure the system the way I want and squash the
> root file system. Finally, I write the squashed root file system to a 2
> gigabyte flash disk.
> 
> With my hack to initramfs-tools, which simply union mounts the squashed
> root with a cow layer, I get a usable desktop on a 2 gigabyte partition.

This sounds a lot like our livecd, and even more like the work we've
done for the classmate PC. I'd compare what you've done with that and
see if there is anything common.