diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 11e9291a3..01cacd09e 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -70,6 +70,9 @@ linux-2.6 (2.6.28-1~experimental.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
   * [x86_64] set NR_CPUS to 512. (closes: #491309)
   * [686-bigmem] set modular XEN_FBDEV_FRONTEND.
   * Newer Standards-Version 3.8.0 without changes.
+  * Use update-initramfs for initramfs-tools.
+  * Fix preinst and postinst call to not use deprecated mkinitramfs-kpkg
+    interfaces.
 
   [ Martin Michlmayr ]
   * [mips/r4k-ip22, mips/sb1-bcm91250a] Don't build in ISO9660.
diff --git a/debian/config/defines b/debian/config/defines
index 64e95a359..07c0e2493 100644
--- a/debian/config/defines
+++ b/debian/config/defines
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ versions:
  3.2-1
 
 [commands-image-initramfs-generators]
-initramfs-tools: mkinitramfs-kpkg
+initramfs-tools: update-initramfs
 yaird: mkinitrd.yaird
 
 [relations]
diff --git a/debian/templates/temp.image.plain/postinst b/debian/templates/temp.image.plain/postinst
index 00968b004..a8c6f3f92 100755
--- a/debian/templates/temp.image.plain/postinst
+++ b/debian/templates/temp.image.plain/postinst
@@ -956,27 +956,24 @@ if ( -d "$modules_base/$version" ) {
 
 
 sub find_inird_tool {
-  my $hostversion = shift;
-  my $version = shift;
-  my @ramdisks =
-    grep {
-      my $args = 
-        "$_ " .
-          "--supported-host-version=$hostversion " .
-            "--supported-target-version=$version " .
-              "1>/dev/null 2>&1"
-                ;
-      system($args) == 0;
-    }
-      split (/[:,\s]+/, $ramdisk);
+	my $ramdisk = shift;
+	my (@ramdisks, $initramfs_cmd);
+
+	foreach $initramfs_cmd  (split(/[:,\s]+/, $ramdisk)) {
+		if (system("test -x \"\$(command -v $initramfs_cmd)\"") == 0) {
+			push(@ramdisks, $initramfs_cmd);
+		}
+        }
+	return @ramdisks;
 }
 
+
 # The initrd symlink should probably be in the same dir that the
 # symlinks are in
 if ($initrd) {
   chomp (my $hostversion = `uname -r`);
   my @ramdisklist;
-  @ramdisklist = find_inird_tool($hostversion, $version, $ramdisk) if $ramdisk;
+  @ramdisklist = find_inird_tool($ramdisk) if $ramdisk;
   die "Failed to find suitable ramdisk generation tool for kernel version \n" .
     "$version on running kernel $hostversion in $ramdisk\n"
       if $#ramdisklist < 0;
@@ -988,15 +985,12 @@ if ($initrd) {
     my $initrd_path = $realimageloc . "initrd.img-$version";
     my $ret = system("$ramdisk_cmd " .
                      ($mkimage ? "-m '$mkimage' " : "") .
-                     "-o $initrd_path.new $modules_base/$version");
+                     "-c -t -k $version");
     if ($ret) {
       warn "$ramdisk_cmd failed to create initrd image.\n";
-    }
-    else {
-      rename("$initrd_path.new", "$initrd_path")
-        or die("Failed to rename initrd ($initrd_path)\n");
-      $success = 1;
-      last;
+    } else {
+	$success = 1;
+	last;
     }
   }
   die "Failed to create initrd image.\n" unless $success;
diff --git a/debian/templates/temp.image.plain/preinst b/debian/templates/temp.image.plain/preinst
index 993abac15..96e98239e 100755
--- a/debian/templates/temp.image.plain/preinst
+++ b/debian/templates/temp.image.plain/preinst
@@ -178,19 +178,15 @@ $ENV{KERNEL_ARCH}=$kernel_arch if $kernel_arch;
 # this package.
 
 sub find_inird_tool {
-  my $hostversion = shift;
-  my $version = shift;
-  my @ramdisks =
-    grep {
-      my $args = 
-        "$_ " .
-          "--supported-host-version=$hostversion " .
-            "--supported-target-version=$version " .
-              "1>/dev/null 2>&1"
-                ;
-      system($args) == 0;
-    }
-      split (/[:,\s]+/, $ramdisk);
+	my $ramdisk = shift;
+	my (@ramdisks, $initramfs_cmd);
+
+	foreach $initramfs_cmd  (split(/[:,\s]+/, $ramdisk)) {
+		if (system("test -x \"\$(command -v $initramfs_cmd)\"") == 0) {
+			push(@ramdisks, $initramfs_cmd);
+		}
+        }
+	return @ramdisks;
 }
 
 # For some versions of kernel-package, we had this warning in the
@@ -202,7 +198,7 @@ $initrd=~ s/^$pattern$//;
 if ($initrd) {
   chomp (my $hostversion = `uname -r`);
   my @ramdisklist;
-  @ramdisklist = find_inird_tool($hostversion, $version, $ramdisk) if $ramdisk;
+  @ramdisklist = find_inird_tool($ramdisk) if $ramdisk;
   if ($#ramdisklist < 0) {
     my $ret;
     my $seen;