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

[Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>]

On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 01:51:07PM -0600, Bdale Garbee wrote:
> Stephan Schreiber <info@fs-driver.org> writes:
[...]
> > Ben Hutchings wrote:
> >
> >> None of this is particularly relevant to the EFI boot volume, though,
> >> as all filenames on there should be ASCII-only.
> >
> > You are right. It doesn't really matter how this bug is fixed.
> >
> > Unfortunately there isn't any message of the elilo maintainer yet.
> 
> I guess that's me.  I didn't read the previous email in enough detail to
> realize that you expected a reply from me, since the bug was not
> assigned to elilo at the time and there were other competent folks in
> the CC list.
> 
> Reading through the bug log, it appears that you think one choice is to
> just have the mount call in the elilo.sh not specify iocharset=iso8859-1?
> What might the consequences of doing that be in other contexts?  I
> haven't thought about this in years.

'iocharset=iso8859-1' is actually the default; you would need to
override the default by specifying 'iocharset=utf8'.

Given that we don't expect there to be any non-ASCII filenames on the
EFI boot volume, this should have no other effect.
 
[...]
> If someone wants to offer up patches, I'm happy to apply them and do an
> upload.  If there's consensus that I should just drop the iocharset=
> specifier and upload a version with just that change targeting wheezy, I
> can do that, but it's unlikely to get attention from the release
> managers without both an RC bug and an unblock request?
[...]
 
I can reassign this to elilo and you can set severity to serious,
making it RC.  Then you can upload and request unblocking.  Given
that elilo is currently synched between testing and unstable, an
unblock request for a single fix is sure to be accepted.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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