Bug#1054644: xfsprogs-udeb: causes D-I to fail, reporting errors about missing partition devices

[Cyril Brulebois]

Julian Andres Klode <julian.klode at canonical.com> (2023-12-25):
> The final grub 2.12 that includes the fix should hit unstable in the
> middle of January. As you might be aware many are busy with family
> stuff and holiday celebrations right now.

Sure. I wasn't aware an upstream release was in the pipes, only that
patches have existed and been confirmed OK for close to 2 months.

> As always though it stands to reason that this is a change that should
> (have been) reverted in xfsprogs first until a grub that understands
> it has been released in a stable point release such that you can use a
> stable grub to inspect an XFS filesystem created by a trixie xfsprogs.

The more we tick boxes in the compatibility matrix, the happier, yes.

> It seems the bug has been wrongly reassigned instead of being cloned
> and reassigned, so I'm cloning it back to xfsprogs.

Right, this would have been easier to track if debian-boot@ had been put
(and kept) in the loop all along.


Cheers,
-- 
Cyril Brulebois (kibi at debian.org)            <https://debamax.com/>
D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant
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