Bug#489426: grub-pc: patches/02_old_linux_version_comparison.diff broke update-grub

[Felix Zielcke]

Package: grub-pc
Version: 1.96+20080704-1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable


Just installed grub2 from incoming
update-grub failed with the following:

# update-grub
Updating /boot/grub/grub.cfg ...
[: 212: ==: unexpected operator
Found linux image:
basename: missing operand
Try `basename --help' for more information.

In /etc/grub.d/10_linux line 137 must be changed from
  [ `CompareVersions "$a" "$b"` == 1 ]
to
  [ `CompareVersions "$a" "$b"` = 1 ]

i.e. changing == to =


-- Package-specific info:

*********************** BEGIN /proc/mounts
/dev/root / ext4dev rw,errors=remount-ro,barrier=1,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/root /dev/.static/dev ext4dev ro,errors=remount-ro,barrier=1,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/sda1 /boot ext2 rw,errors=continue 0 0
*********************** END /proc/mounts

*********************** BEGIN /boot/grub/device.map
(hd0)	/dev/sda
(hd1)	/dev/sdb
*********************** END /boot/grub/device.map

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (1, 'experimental'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-rc8 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages grub-pc depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]    1.5.22          Debian configuration management sy
ii  grub-common              1.96+20080704-1 GRand Unified Bootloader, version 
ii  libc6                    2.7-12          GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  liblzo2-2                2.03-1          data compression library
ii  libncurses5              5.6+20080621-2  shared libraries for terminal hand

grub-pc recommends no packages.

-- debconf information:
  grub-pc/linux_cmdline: fillme
  grub-pc/chainload_from_menu.lst: true