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

[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

[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2024-12/msg00125.html
[2] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2020-12/msg00239.html
[3] https://git.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-core-dev/grub/+git/ubuntu/tree/debian/patches/ubuntu-zfs-enhance-support.patch
[4] https://salsa.debian.org/grub-team/grub/-/merge_requests/66/diffs


On 12/20/24 13:44, Felix Zielcke wrote:
> Am Freitag, dem 20.12.2024 um 10:09 +0100 schrieb Felix Dörre:
>> Dear Maintainer,
>>
>> There is a bug in the grub package that repeatedly hinders me for
>> quite
>> some time now:
>> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=848945
>>
>> As far as I can see there has been no reaction or comment from a
>> maintainer on the debian bug (or from a grub-developer on the
>> upstream
>> bug).
>>
>> Also the required fix is pretty trivial. I've packaged one of them,
>> which seems the best solution to me, as a pull request:
>> https://salsa.debian.org/grub-team/grub/-/merge_requests/66
>>
>> Can a grub-maintainer please help me to get this resolved? The bug is
>> open since Dec 2016 so it's about to celebrate its 8th birthday. I'd
>> be
>> happy to help with any testing/discussion or any other way, to help
>> to
>> get this resolved.
>>
> 
> Hi Felix,
> 
> I never used ZFS myself, so can't tell which would be the best solution
> for the problem.
> But I guess the best would be to take this upstream at
> grub-devel at gnu.org
> 
> Then it get's fixed for everyone and we have way too many Debian/Ubuntu
> specific patches already
> 
> TIA
> Felix