Bug#442382: Grub multipath support

[Guido Günther]

Hi Robert,
first of all, I fully understand your point regarding grub legacy
maintenance. But let me explain a bit...

On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 05:36:22PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> Failing that, what you're essentially requesting is that we take care of
> upstream maintainance for additional functionality _and_ add one more stopper
> for migrating to GRUB 2 in the future.
Pleae have a look at the patch. It's fairly unintrusive and the
grub-install part has been in this form or another in other distros
since ages. It basically brings grub-legacy up to par with the rest of
the world. The only reason we need to slightly patch up things besides
grub-installer is that we implement the current upstream device naming
policy while other distros tend to stick to the old scheme. So the
device.c part is Debian specific anyway atm.
 
[..snip..] 
> Sorry for that.  Please understand we're volunteers and are usually too
> busy, specially when it comes to requests for new features that were sent
> to the wrong branch of GRUB.
So am I and that's exactly why I'd like to have working grub legacy
support in d-i before we turn or heads towards grub2. We might run out
of time before lenny and will then release without multipath support.
Cheers,
 -- Guido