Bug#546757: closed by Felix Zielcke <fzielcke at z-51.de> (Re: Bug#546757: grub: os-prober tries (and fails) to mount crypted partition at grub installation time)

[Felix Zielcke]

Am Dienstag, den 15.09.2009, 22:39 +0200 schrieb Vincent Danjean:
> Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> > This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report
> >> I think this is primary a bug in grub: it must not use os-prober if such stall occurs.
> >> Perhaps you will want to clone this bug to os-proper for a wishbug in order to have an
> >> option to avoid such filesystems.
> > 
> > There was such a bug in os-prober already and a new version has just
> > been uploaded now which fixes this: #546546
> 
>   Sorry, I did not look for bugs of os-prober.
>   However, I think you should conflict (or break) with os-prober versions with
> which grub does not work.
> Else, if someone has an old (lenny) version of os-prober and he upgrade/install
> grub, he can get this kind of bug (as recommends are not necessarily fulfilled).

Why should we conflict or break with it?
Even the lenny version of os-prober works fine except that it can happen
that the filesystems aren't unmounted correctly or that it hangs with
crypted partitions.
Note that we can't change the lenny version anymore. Well through a
point release but I'm not sure the RMs accept such a change and in lenny
we only suggest os-prober not recommend it.
And now we recommend it but it's a versioned recommend (>= 1.32) and
testing still has os-prober 1.28.
So only in sid it gets installed by default and that is now fixed.
The problem with encrypted partitions came up only the last days.
But we suggest (well actually we recommended os-prober first) since 1.96+20080413-1

Well okay I just change the Recommends now to >= 1.33 just to make you
happy in the next upload but that won't change anything.


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Felix Zielcke
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