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

[Felix Zielcke]

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