Bug#767037: Grub EFI fallback - patches for review

[Steve McIntyre]

On Sun, Dec 07, 2014 at 04:38:37PM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
>Control: tag -1 +pending
>On Wed, 2014-12-03 at 15:27 +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>> 
>> 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.

Cool, ta!

>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.

I'll ask for the unblock, and I'll also upload grub-installer the same
day.

>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?

I've *no* idea - it confused me. :-/

>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 guess so, yes.

>> 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.

Yup, saw that. I'm looking into 32-bit EFI stuff right now. Using a
Mac atm *shudder*

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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve at einval.com
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