Bug#593652: grub-common: grub-probe still segfaults with 1.98+20100804-6

[Martin Schitter]

Am 2010-10-26 00:16, schrieb Robert Millan:
> I'm afraid I'm not familiar enough with this part of the code to ACK
> this kind of patch during freeze.
>
> Has this patch been sent upstream? Was it reviewed there?
>
> If it hasn't, please do.  If it's committed or at least ACKed in upstream,
> I see no problem with adding it.

the upstream developers are informed about this problem, even though 
they didn't accept this bug fix. 
(http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2010-09/msg00259.html)

in a quick response to my reminder concerning this outstanding problem 
vladimir serbinenko wrote today on the grub-devel list that he will seek 
for a better solution very soon. 
(http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2010-10/msg00043.html)

martin