Bug#544064: [grub2] install of grub2 lost windows boot option

[Felix Zielcke]

Am Montag, den 21.09.2009, 01:56 +0200 schrieb Simon Dreher:
> Hello,
> 
> why was the dependency (recommendation) on os-prober removed? With the
> automagical upgrade to grub2, many users will have the same problem of
> lost other OSes. I would highly recommend to reopen the bug as an
> important one, until os-prober is recommended by grub2. Letting any
> debian user with a (suddenly no more working) dual-boot system search
> for the loss of his OS is not really nice! Specially, as grub2 seems to
> be totally undocumented!
> I would even say that "grave" or "critical" would be the right priority
> - for an average user, the other OSes are suddenly lost.
> 

The recommendation was not removed but again added.
Note that I changed the unversioned Suggests: os-prober to Recommends:
os-prober (>= 1.32) (>= 1.33 in SVN, so next upload)
>= 1.32 is not yet in squeeze because the mipsel buildd admin didn't
upload it yet.
But you can still just install the old version under squeeze. If you
don't have a luks partition it works fine, except that it can happen
that the filesystems don't get unmounted properly.

And second this is clearly _not_ release critical.
Debian isn't Ubuntu. Not everyone uses other OS'es on their computer.
Escpecially Debian gets used on servers, where os-prober isn't at all
useful.
Just because os-prober didn't get yet installed by default doestn't make
the package useless for everyone.


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Felix Zielcke
Proud Debian Maintainer