Bug#417030: please support GRUB Invaders in 'update-grub'

[Fabian Greffrath]

package: grub
severity: wishlist
tags: patch

Dear GRUB-Maintainers!

Please add support for the GRUB Invaders game to the 'update-grub'
script. GRUB Invaders is a very small (~4kB) multiboot compliant Space
Invaders clone which runs directly on a computer (i386), without an
operating system. It is meant to be started with the GRUB bootloader for
PCs [0,1].

The game is not *yet* in Debian [2] but is still waiting in the NEW
queue [3]. If you want to have a look at the package or want to try out
the game please have a look at mentors.debian.net [4].

Please find attached a trivial patch (~10 lines)
for /usr/sbin/update-grub which adds support for the game. It is
basically the same code used for GRUB 2 chainloading and memtest86(+)
but with the strings renamed.

[0] http://www.erikyyy.de/invaders/
[1] http://unix.freshmeat.net/projects/grubinvaders/
[2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=415955
[3] http://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html
[4] http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/i/invaders/

Thank you very much!

Cheers,
Fabian
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