Bug#546822: update of grub-pc daisychained from -legacy boots into -pc

[Gabriel Kerneis]

Package: grub-pc
Severity: normal


Hi,

> If it was presented to you, was there something misleading about it?

What I find misleading is that a dummy user might think:

"well, until now Debian folks have been very cautious with the grub
upgrade: there is the chainload stuff and it requires me to explicitely
use upgrade-grub-legacy, so they couldn't break everything without an
extra-big-red-bold-letters warning, could they? what they ask in this
dialog is probably the drives where the chainload should take place,
isn't it? or maybe this is some configuration file that is being set-up,
but it cannot have any effect on my system as long as I did not run that
silly upgrade-grub-legacy..."

I am that dummy user who just lost an afternoon with SystemRescue CD to
restore grub-legacy, and a co-worker would have made the same mistake if
I hadn't stopped him, so trust me: a big warning would be more than
welcome.

[One might argue that dummy users should not use unstable, of course.]

Regards,
                   Gabriel Kerneis


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

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages grub-pc depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]       1.5.27       Debian configuration management sy
ii  grub-common                 1.97~beta4-1 GRand Unified Bootloader, version 
ii  libc6                       2.9-27       GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  ucf                         3.0022       Update Configuration File: preserv

grub-pc recommends no packages.

Versions of packages grub-pc suggests:
ii  desktop-base                  5.0.5      common files for the Debian Deskto
ii  genisoimage                   9:1.1.9-1  Creates ISO-9660 CD-ROM filesystem