Bug#1031325: e2fsprogs 1.47.0 introduces a breaking change into Bookworm, breaking grub and making installations of Ubuntu and Debian releases via debootstrap impossible
On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 12:05:41AM +0100, Daniel Leidert wrote:
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> Reasons:
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> - - the change makes it impossible to create filesystems with this version of
> e2fsprogs and then run a grub-install from a target system that does not cope
> with that feature; basically breaking the debootstrap method of installing
> Debian or Ubuntu onto a server (violating #4 of the Debian social contract)
>...
> Instead, turning on this feature should be postponed for the next release cycle
> where a proper transition can be done.
>...
Daniel, you are contradicting yourself when claiming that a change that
would allegedly violate the Debian social contract could be done in the
next release cycle.
> Daniel Leidert
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Adrian
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