Bug#685186: IA64 (Itanium) Wheezy, ELILO installation failed, patch proposal

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

tags 685186 + moreinfo
# letting version tracking do its work
tags 685186 - wheezy
# if I understand correctly, it is still possible to use the kernel on
# itanium, so the package is not unusable
severity 685186 important
quit

Hi,

Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 17:07:00 +0200, Stephan Schreiber wrote:

>> The failed command is in debian/elilo.sh:
>>
>> fstype=vfat
>> ....
>> mount -t "$fstype" -o
>> codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,rw,noexec,umask=077$loop "$boot"
>> "$TMP/bootstrap.$$"
>> what is perfect to mount an EFI system partition - much better than UTF-8.
[...]
> < bwh> 'iocharset=iso8859-1' is a bug; Linux standard character encoding
>        is UTF-8
> < bwh> for filenames, at least
> < bwh> So, assign to whatever contains the debian/elilo.sh script

On Wednesday, Stephan Schreiber wrote:

> tags 685186 + patch
> reassign 685186 kernel-image-3.2.0-3-itanium-di
> affects 685186 + elilo-installer
> severity 685186 grave
> tags 685186 + wheezy

Could you say a little more?  Where did Ben and Julien go wrong in the
previous analysis?

Thanks,
Jonathan