Can I somehow help to solve a debian-grub bug?

[Felix Dörre]

Hi,

Yeah, and sadly no-one else did answer. I can try to actively poke other people/zfs users, that I know are interested in this bug. Like e.g. Stefan Bühler, who suggested this change on the corresponding debian bug (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=848945#49) or other interested people on that debian bug, or I can get other zfs-using friends to test out this patch and comment on the mailing list.

Is that what was asked for on the grub-mailing-list, that just anyone confirms the patch?

If there is the confirmation from a specific grub maintainer is required, I have no clue on how to push this forward. Do you have any suggestions?

Kind regards,
Felix

On 2/28/25 16:04, Felix Zielcke wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, dem 19.02.2025 um 01:05 +0100 schrieb Felix Dörre:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Based on your suggestion I tried to to raise this issue upstream
>> again, but there was no response at all [1]. It also seems that this
>> was attempted before where there was at least a reaction, but
>> eventually interest died off [2]. I don't know what I am doing wrong,
>> and I don't see a way to move forward upstream. In general, the
>> mailing list does not seem that responsive to outside contribution
>> suggestions.
>>
>> As this is a simple change, not even in grub itself, but only in the
>> supporting shellscripts, maybe adding a debian/ubuntu patch could be
>> reasonable? Ubuntu already has a rather large patch in that area,
>> that fixes this issue as well [3]. As they actively support ZFS, it's
>> pretty reasonable that they improved that support. That patch that I
>> am suggesting [4] is essentially just a single line.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Felix Dörre
>>
> 
> Hi Felix,
> 
> Daniel (upstream Maintainer of GURB) now asked on grub-devel if that
> patch is correct:
> 
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2025-02/msg00189.html
> 
> Hopefully someone with knowledge will answer that soon.
> Then it's fine to me to include it.
> 
> Regards,
> Felix


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Kind regards,
Felix Dörre