Re: request new bpo packages for grub2 and ntp

[Alexander Wirt <formorer@formorer.de>]

Jelle de Jong schrieb am Wednesday, den 15. September 2010:

Hi,

> On 10-09-10 09:33, Jelle de Jong wrote:
> > On 07-09-10 10:59, Jelle de Jong wrote:
> >> I would like a new version of grub2 for bpo, the current version does
> >> not support ext4, with lvm and mdadm. Could somebody backport the
> >> current debian testing package?
> >>
> >> I would also like to request a bpo release for the ntp package from
> >> debian testing, it fixes a few very annoying bugs on my production machines.
> > 
> > Is there a way I can put a bounty on this? Like sending a few Debian
> > wine bottles to the bpo maintainers?
Oh my good, please no Debian wine. But anyhow got myself annoyed enough by
the requests to update the backport on my own. 

I don't have a local lenny boxes to test it on, so I won't upload until I
have some success messages. If you are brave and want to give it a try, see
here: http://people.debian.org/~formorer/grub2/

 
> I am still begging for a new grub2 backports package, the current one
> can't handle ext4 with lvm and mdadm. If there is a small bounty needed
> please contact me. (debian wine, donations to free software projects)
Feel free to donate something to debian :).

Alex