Bug#1030846: Bug#1030939: e2fsprogs: generates filesystems that grub-install doesn't recognize

[Steve McIntyre]

On Tue, Feb 14, 2023 at 11:34:13AM +0100, Daniel Leidert wrote:
>Am Montag, dem 13.02.2023 um 21:35 -0500 schrieb Theodore Ts'o:

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>> But a generalized requirement that we be able to use debootstrap and
>> vmdb2 to be able to bootstrap an arbitrarily old distribution doesn't
>> seem to be reasonable.
>
>You are completyl wrong. This breaks a standard way of installing any
>system supported by deboostrap with a grub without a fix to deal with
>this version of e2fsprogs. This isn't just about vmdb2.
>
>What you are saying is ignorant.
>
>If this isn't cared about, then this version of e2fsprogs shouldn't
>make it into Bookworm. We are in the middle of a freeze and this breaks
>toolchains and a standard way (see [1]) of installing Debian.

Sorry Daniel, but I have to (mostly!) agree with Ted here. If you're
creating an image of an older release using newer tools then you'll
need to be aware that sometimes the newer tools will create things
that don't work there. If there's a bug here, I would strongly argue
that it's in vmdb2. deboostrap (for example) includes some
release-specific knowledge to cope with issues like this.

If we don't allow for this kind of change, that wouldn't allow us to
*ever* make breaking changes in some packages, and that's just not
sustainable.

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