Bug#603354: closed by Colin Watson <cjwatson at debian.org> (Bug#603354: fixed in grub2 1.99~20101122-1)

[Colin Watson]

# IMO as co-maintainer, we should not release without going the last
# mile to make DM-RAID work.
severity 603354 serious
thanks

On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 02:22:56PM +0200, Modestas Vainius wrote:
> On pirmadienis 22 Lapkritis 2010 21:24:13 Modestas Vainius wrote:
> > On pirmadienis 22 Lapkritis 2010 15:51:18 Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> > > This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report
> > > which was filed against the grub-common package:
> > > 
> > > #603354: grub-common: grub-probe/grub2 does not recognize DDF1 fakeraid
> > > as DMRAID array (trivial fix)
> > > 
> > > Source: grub2
> > > Source-Version: 1.99~20101122-1
> > 
> > Any hope for the fix to get to squeeze?
> 
> Seriously, can I at least get an explanation why a trivial two line patch 
> cannot get to Squeeze? It's not that people upgrade their servers very early 
> in the distro development process but it's the only segment where some kind of 
> RAID is very common. So it's logical that such issues come to bright light 
> only now. If you're *consciously* limiting a set of hardware where supposedly 
> universal OS could be used by not applying an obvious (!) *trivial* (!) 
> straightforward (!) patch, you should at least give a good explanation.

Actually I just have far too much e-mail and forgot about it.  Sorry!
I'm preparing an upload at the moment and will include this, although it
will be subject to release team approval.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at debian.org]