Bug#542170: Bug#470398: Bug#542170: 10_linux: please implement alternative options

[Colin Watson]

On Mon, May 04, 2020 at 10:38:39AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 10:36:13AM +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote:
> > seems like you forgot that you already reported this as 470398.
> > madduck said it 488840 that he has interest in implementing this and
> > Manoj said on IRC that he has also interest but that it's pretty low on
> > his list.
> 
> This was nine and a half years ago.
> 
> I have submitted merge request
> https://salsa.debian.org/grub-team/grub/-/merge_requests/15 four months
> ago. No reaction.

This sort of thing *really* needs to go upstream first, otherwise we can
easily end up with even more catastrophically complicated compatibility
code.  I've commented in the merge proposal to that effect.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at debian.org]