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

[Sven Joachim]

[Switching over to the cloned bug.]

On 2023-02-09 12:31 -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 09, 2023 at 06:04:23PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
>>
>> Thanks from me as well :-).  To prevent e2fsprogs from migrating to
>> testing before grub2 and breaking d-i, I am reassigning a copy of this
>> bug back to e2fsprogs.  It may be closed once grub2 2.06-8 enters
>> Bookworm.   Perhaps it would also be a good idea to add a versioned
>> "Breaks: grub2-common (<< 2.06-8~)" to e2fsprogs.
>
> Perhaps we could just add a "Breaks: grub2-common (<< 2.06-8~)" to
> e2fsprogs-udeb?

That is not going to help, because IIUC grub-install is run from the
target system that you are installing, and there is no
grub2-common-udeb.

> After all, it's not that e2fsprogs breaks
> grub2-common, per se, unless the *installer* happens to to use << grub
> 2.06-8~ and e2fsprogs 1.47.0-1.

I was also thinking of the cases where the /boot filesystem is
recreated, e.g. when transferring the installation to a different disk.

Cheers,
       Sven