Re: Grub 2.00 in testing?
"Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk> writes:
> On Sun, 2013-07-21 at 20:42 -0700, Carl Johnson wrote:
>> Does anybody know what is going on with grub in testing? I have been
>> waiting for 2.00, but it seems to be stuck at 1.99. Grub-common at
>> http://packages.debian.org/jessie/grub-common shows that it is at
>> 1.99-27+deb7u1, but the source files show 2.00-14. The qa page at
>> http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/grub2.html shows that 2.00-14 was
>> migrated to testing on 2013-06-14, so there appear to be some
>> inconsistancies.
>
> The migration notification is in error; it's a bug in the script that
> generates the notifications, that doesn't ignore extra entries included
> in the Sources files added by the archive management software in order
> to help with some license compliance. Now that we're aware of it, that
> bug will be fixed.
>
> As you mention checking the Sources files, I suspect you've made the
> same (reasonable) mistake that the script is currently making - if the
> stanza has "Extra-Source-Only: yes" then it is only there for compliance
> and does not indicate that the package is in testing.
>
> Apologies for the confusion; grub2 2.00 has indeed not yet made it to
> testing.
Thank you for the explanation. I don't really want to use unstable so
I'll just continue waiting.
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Carl Johnson carlj@peak.org
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