Bug#1135137: upgrade-reports: Bookworm -> Trixie mdadm raid EFI not updated on both disks

[Thorsten Behrens]

On Fri, 1 May 2026 13:49:53 +0200 Pascal Hambourg <pascal at plouf.fr.eu.org> wrote:
> On 01/05/2026, Thorsten Behrens wrote:
> > a note at [release notes] to look out for systems with multiple ESPs
> > such as RAID 1 setups
>
> Debian does not support multiple ESPs out of the box, so users who set
> this up should already know.

That clearly isn't always so in practice, particularly when the Debian setup is done by a provider of rented equipment. I think it'd be friendly and good UX to mention it in release notes; but I can also see a point of "that's too niche, we can't mention everything".

> > On Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:46:30 Pascal Hambourg wrote:
>
> grub-pc records the devices where GRUB should be installed in debconf,
> why wouldn't grub-efi just do the same for EFI partitions ?

Over to the maintainers of grub-efi. I am not nearly deep enough in Debian to hold an opinion.

Yours sincerely
Thorsten

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