Your message dated Sat, 30 Oct 2021 18:30:54 +0200 with message-id <[🔎] 20211030183054.906cb9aac22395d0f32a6a86@mailbox.org> and subject line Mass-closing old grub-installer bugs has caused the Debian Bug report #666552, regarding [grub-common] Bad GRUB / os-prober integration: Other operating systems removed from GRUB's list when os-prober is removed, duplicate menu entries to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith. (NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what this message is talking about, this may indicate a serious mail system misconfiguration somewhere. Please contact owner@bugs.debian.org immediately.) -- 666552: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=666552 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact owner@bugs.debian.org with problems
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- Subject: [grub-common] Bad GRUB / os-prober integration: Other operating systems removed from GRUB's list when os-prober is removed, duplicate menu entries
- From: Filipus Klutiero <chealer@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2012 13:04:05 -0400
- Message-id: <4F773905.2090704@gmail.com>
Package: grub-common, os-prober, grub-installer Version: 1.99-17 Severity: important X-Debbugs-Cc: 650414@bugs.debian.org X-Debbugs-Cc: 563204@bugs.debian.org GRUB doesn't depend on os-prober, it only recommends it.One obvious effect is that when installing GRUB, other operating systems are not necessarily detected. This was reported in #563204. However, debian-installer includes a fallback procedure to write a static /etc/grub.d/30_otheros in that case (for example, when installing from a netinst without a mirror). This itself has a downside - if os-prober is later installed, both 30_otheros and 30_os-prober will cause the addition of entries for other OS-es, so other operating systems will be duplicated.One less obvious and worst effect, which was alluded to in comments of #563204, is that the removal of os-prober eventually causes the loss of other operating systems. And this is both likely and non-trivial to "debug".os-prober is only extra. Its extended description reads:This package detects other OSes available on a system and outputs the results in a generic machine-readable format.Unless the administrator reading this is very alert, it's unlikely he will think the removal of os-prober can affect GRUB. And when removing os-prober, there is no warning at all about an effect on GRUB.Also, the effect will only be seen after grub.cfg is updated and then the system rebooted, which will normally take days, usually weeks, so it will be hard for the administrator to realize that his removal of os-prober caused the problem when he notices the problem.The duplication of menu entries could be solved by removing 30_otheros when os-prober is installed. The loss of menu entries could be solved by writing a "final" 30_otheros when os-prober is removed, in prerm. However, it would be even better, and much less complicated to implement, to simply make GRUB depend on os-prober, which only weighs 128 kB, as suggested in #563204. This would in fact allow a substantial simplification of grub-installer eventually, and fix #650414 for free. It could also make os-prober-udeb unneeded.
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- Subject: Mass-closing old grub-installer bugs
- From: Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org>
- Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2021 18:30:54 +0200
- Message-id: <[🔎] 20211030183054.906cb9aac22395d0f32a6a86@mailbox.org>
Hi, similar to the installation-reports bugs, I'm closing the grub-installer reports below. These are reports for Debian 4 / 6 / 7 / 9 where grub-installer fails (for various reasons). There have been numerous changes/improvements on this topics in the past, and also because of the age of the reports we should consider these problems as being fixed (or it is even reported in the bugs that they are fixed). They are most likely of no use anymore for recent releases. If you know, that the issue you reported (and gets closed here) is still existing in recent installation images, please file a new report for that with up-to-date details! Thank you for filing these bug reports, they have been very useful at the time they were filed! https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=785149 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=489005 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=610116 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=611713 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=612420 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=621923 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=647267 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=659116 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=665856 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=666552 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=668923 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=686955 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=690515 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=690592 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=702731 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=729411 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=771467 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=780115 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=806164 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=806849 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=416986 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=252009 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=292513 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=310798 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=391489 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=489006 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=578338 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=582367 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=229128 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=463842 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=497168 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=500079 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=516392 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=520361 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=544949 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=549703 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=557242 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=580461 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=587699 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=588670 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=596877 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=612025 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=618498 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=639713 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=666559 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=699456 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=703901 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=707604 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=711330 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=609939 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=498831 Cheers Holger -- Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org> PGP-Fingerprint: 496A C6E8 1442 4B34 8508 3529 59F1 87CA 156E B076
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