Comment 80 for bug 6367

>As explained earlier in this bug, this is an incompatible change which could
>cause working systems to fail to boot. As such, it is not appropriate for
>backporting to a stable release.
>There is new infrastructure in Edgy which makes it robust against this type
>of change, allowing the root filesystem to be found regardless of the device
>name, so this problem will be solved for the future.
>
>--
> - mdz

Thank you for the quick answer.

Yeah I read it was solved for Edgy. Great work guys!

I will report to the forum users that there is no chance that this will ever get fixed for Dapper. I will wait a couple of days before announcing to be sure.