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 Mittwoch, den 16.09.2009, 10:20 +0200 schrieb 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.
> 

Oh and I forgot that the Ubuntu version always Recommended os-prober
(well even depended on it)
And britney respects Breaks now. So if I'd add it, we'd be stuck with
the current squeeze grub2 version as long as os-prober doestn't migrate,
which is frozen because of the udeb.
So if we fix another RC bug it'll take a while until it reaches squeeze
just because of the Conflicts/Breaks.


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Felix Zielcke
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