Bug#494460: grub-pc: update-grub unable to generate a graphical gfxterm menu

[Javier Vasquez]

On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 5:01 PM, Felix Zielcke <fzielcke at z-51.de> wrote:
> tag 494460 pending
> retitle 494460 i386 builds are missing fonts
> thanks
>
> Am Samstag, den 09.08.2008, 16:44 -0600 schrieb Javier Vasquez:
>>
>> And there's a difference in here, since for i686:
>>
>> # ls /usr/share/grub/
>> #
>>
> See 494473
>
> The reason is that the unifont-bin package doestn't provide anymore the
> file we use to generate the fonts for GRUB.
> The new upload for lenny will build-depend on the old version, so
> hopefully all buildds will then use the lenny version to build the
> packages.

OK, however neither of my boxes (amd64 nor i686) have unifont nor
unifont-bin installed (they are not dependencies for grub-pc or
grub-common).

BTW, on the amd64, I don't have /usr/share/unifont path, as a result
that I don't have unifont/unifont-bin installed, and I still have for
amd64:

% ls /usr/share/grub/
ascii.pff  unicode.pff

Both the i386 and the amd64 packages seem to have the same versions:

http://packages.debian.org/sid/grub-pc
Package: grub-pc (1.96+20080724-6)

http://packages.debian.org/sid/grub-common
amd64 	1.96+20080724-6
i386 	   1.96+20080724-6

So the reason might just be that things are done differently for these
2 architectures, and the bug is i386 exclusive, :)...  I'm mentioning
this out of my ignorance, since I still don't get how things still
work for one architecture and not the other, given that both have the
same versions, and both are not depending upon unifont* which I don't
have installed in any architecture...  So my only guess is that they
do things very different then, :).

So the clue is then to wait for a new update which would fix things
then, I guess?

Thanks,

-- 
Javier