On 2013-12-14 05:47, Charles Plessy wrote:
pv-grub-menu is a package that maintains a configuration file in/boot/grub/menu.lst, that is read by the PV-GRUB boot system. It can not be part of the grub-legacy package, which is in maintainance mode, and GRUB2 maintainers have not expressed an interest for hosting the scripts (which are not relevant to GRUB2). pv-grub-menu is a specialised package that is onlyuseful for system images booted by PV-GRUB, in particular on the Amazon platform.
…and Xen in general. I agree with this assessment.
However, it has been three monthes that the package is blocked in the NEW queue because the FTP team would prefer its contents to be part of an existingpackage.
That's odd. I think in this case it outweighs the trouble of introducing a new package. It already needs to get its own binary package that's not co-installable with legacy grub, because it owns the menu listing and having both grub.cfg and menu.lst because grub2 is installed would be confusing as well. So the only additional bit is the source package.
But I didn't look for the real reject rationale, if there was one. (Instead of just polite feedback asking if it could done differently, which wouldn't be accessibly archived.)
Kind regards Philipp Kern