Comment 30 for bug 1631474

smoser - I think you make a really good point. A regression in an LTS distribution that results in a working configuration to no longer work is fairly serious - as is introducing behavioral changes in an LTS. While I'm generally in favor of fix-forward, it's not always the right approach. I acknowledge changes are hard, and there's not always a clear or right answer, especially given the vast diversity in exactly what people do with their systems and how they configure them. This is a larger discussion around change management, and my opinions here are a bit off-topic as it relates specifically to this bug, so...

I retested with xenial-proposed and the system rebooted fine for me.

initramfs-tools:
  Installed: 0.122ubuntu8.4
  Candidate: 0.122ubuntu8.4
  Version table:
 *** 0.122ubuntu8.4 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-proposed/main amd64 Packages

ii initramfs-tools 0.122ubuntu8.4 all generic modular initramfs generator (automation)
ii initramfs-tools-bin 0.122ubuntu8.4 amd64 binaries used by initramfs-tools
ii initramfs-tools-core 0.122ubuntu8.4 all generic modular initramfs generator (core tools)