grub2 update to squeeze?

Adam D. Barratt adam at adam-barratt.org.uk
Sun Jun 12 16:15:32 UTC 2011


On Sat, 2011-06-11 at 22:33 +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> I'm considering a grub2 update to squeeze to fix a handful of important
> bugs.  I'll try to secure as much testing as I reasonably can before
> upload, but before I start that work I'd like to know whether the SRMs
> feel that this set of changes is in general terms likely to be accepted.

Thanks for working on this.

> The Xen fix is in my opinion the most important one here, but I've had
> various requests for these RAID fixes too.

The diff looks okay; thanks.  Looking at the bug logs, it appears that
these two changes are currently unfixed in unstable:

> +    - Handle Xen split-partition disk image devices (closes: 601974).
> +    - Check RAID superblock offset (closes: #610184).

Is that correct?  Having the patches applied and verified in unstable is
usually a pre-requisite to applying them to stable.

Regards,

Adam




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