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

[Marc Haber]

On Mon, May 04, 2020 at 12:23:18PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> 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.

Did you look at the diff between Debian's 10_linux and upstrem's
10_linux recently?

Greetings
Marc

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