Bug#767037: Grub EFI fallback - patches for review

[Ian Campbell]

Control: tag -1 +pending

On Wed, 2014-12-03 at 15:27 +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 03, 2014 at 09:42:20AM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> >On Wed, 2014-12-03 at 01:55 +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> >> On Tue, Dec 02, 2014 at 08:36:31AM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> >> >On Mon, 2014-12-01 at 13:57 +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> >> >
> >> >Starting with grub-install-fallback.patch:
> >> >
> >> >> >From e384e597914b6e1b1dcbf96ef6782cf9bcc2313b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> >> >>  debian/patches/grub-install-extra-removable.patch | 115 ++++++++++++++++++++++
> >> >
> >> >Could you send this to grub-devel at gnu.org? Or at least provide a commit
> >> >log for the upstream bit inline in the patch for whoever does end up
> >> >forwarding it.
> >> 
> >> Sure, no problem. I've added a header for now. As my stuff is
> >> intermingled with other changes in the Debian tree, I'm not sure how
> >> well that will work upstream...
> >
> >Ah yes, if it is dependent on other non-upstream stuff then probably no
> >point sending off in isolation.
> 
> ACK. It's not *functionally* dependent, but it's intermingled in the
> patches.
> 
> >> Rebased patch V2 against current git master attached...
> >
> >Looks good to me.
> 
> Cool. I don't (think I) have push access to the git repo, so if you
> could do the honours and apply, that would be lovely. :-)

Done, patches are now in pkg-grub/grub.git#master.

The current package in sid (-17) is unblocked and I think ought to
transition tomorrow (or perhaps Tuesday depending on TZ). I propose to
upload -18 with this change shortly after that happens. Will you take
care of the unblock request or at least provide me some text with the
rationale etc.

There are a boatload of updates to debian/po/*. How is that handled? I
committed the automated thing but am I supposed to prod some process
somewhere else too?

Anyway, I suppose there will need to be a second upload at some point
with the results of those translations. Perhaps that will be a good time
to fix #771249 too.

> I'm also wanting to get this into Jessie if we can, along with the
> 32-bit EFI work that's next...!

-17 included some patches from Colin to make the 32-bit linuxefi command
work.