Bug#879773: stretch-pu: package syslinux/3:6.03+dfsg-14.1+deb9u1

["Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>]

Control: tags -1 + confirmed

On Wed, 2017-10-25 at 18:21 +0200, Lukas Schwaighofer wrote:
> I hereby ask for permission to update the syslinux package in
> stretch.
> There has been a short discussion about this on debian-cd already
> [1].
> The request is about fixing the following three problems:
> 
> 1. Booting from ext4 filesystems created with Debian stretch does not
>    work, because ext4's 64bit feature is enabled by default (since
>    Debian stretch) and not supported by syslinux [2].
> 2. Booting from btrfs does not work either for a similar reason [3].
> 3. A bug in the isolinux isohybrid MBR causing boot failures with
> some
>    old BIOS [4].
> 
> [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-cd/2017/10/msg00032.html
> [2] https://bugs.debian.org/833057
> [3] https://bugs.debian.org/865462
> [4] https://bugs.debian.org/879004

Please go ahead.

> PS: If this request gets ACKed, I also intend to fix the isohybrid
> MBR
>     in jessie (as advised by Steve McIntyre).
> 

Please file a separate bug for that.

Regards,

Adam