Bug#982182: Still a regression?

[Colin Watson]

On Tue, Feb 09, 2021 at 12:57:33PM +0100, Christopher Huhn wrote:
> we install all our systems with FAI and at least our FAI setup does not set
> grub-pc/install_devices.
> That might be an issue with our setup or a general issue with FAI (we'll
> have to look into that).
> 
> Anyhow the change surely breaks all installs before
> grub-pc/install_devices has been properly set at install time (might be 10
> years ago or more for a server).
> Manually fixing it on > 1000 (heterogeneous) servers might be quite a big
> effort.
> 
> So for a change in a Debian stable point release this looks like a quite
> serious regression to me.

This is unfortunate, but as I said in my previous email the alternative
was worse (unbootable machines, and quite possibly in similar
circumstances of large fleets of machines).  I'm open to trying harder
to infer a correct value of grub-pc/install_devices if you can help to
identify specific cases in which it would be safe and helpful to do so,
but in general I'm not going to revert the changes that add a prompt in
cases of ambiguity.

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Colin Watson (he/him)                              [cjwatson at debian.org]