Bug#692246: grub2: grub-mkimage 1.99-23.1 still lacks the XZ support

[Colin Watson]

On Sun, Nov 04, 2012 at 12:10:31PM +0800, Steven Shiau wrote:
> Package: grub-common
> Version: 1.99-23.1
> Severity: important
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> The XZ support for grub-mkimage has been marked as done in #688773. 
> However, I am still having the problem to use it:
> $ grub-mkimage -C xz -O i386-pc -o myxz.img
> grub-mkimage: error: grub-mkimage is compiled without XZ support.

#688773 had nothing whatsoever to do with grub-mkimage support for xz
compression.  It was about compression of the .deb files.

You filed this at Severity: important - could you explain?  Why is this
important to you?  I didn't previously have plans to backport '-C xz'
support to the 1.99 packaging, as there doesn't seem any particularly
urgent need for it.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at debian.org]