Re: Grub 2.00 in testing?
Sharon Kimble <skimble04@gmail.com> writes:
> On 22 July 2013 04:45, Carl Johnson <carlj@peak.org> wrote:
>
>> William Hopkins <we.hopkins@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > On 07/20/13 at 08:43pm, Carl Johnson wrote:
>> >> Does anybody know what is going on with grub in testing? I have been
>> >> waiting for 2.00, but it seems to be stuck at 1.99. Grub-common at
>> >> http://packages.debian.org/jessie/grub-common shows that it is at
>> >> 1.99-27+deb7u1, but the source files show 2.00-14. The qa page at
>> >> http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/grub2.html shows that 2.00-14 was
>> >> migrated to testing on 2013-06-14, so there appear to be some
>> >> inconsistancies.
>> >>
>> >
>> > No idea. Maybe ask debian-dev?
>>
>> Thanks for the suggestion, I sent in the message to debian-devel. I
>> will summarize responses in a follow-up to my original message.
>>
>> When I saw this I checked my grub situation as I knew that I was running
> grub2 from seeing it displayed when I rebooted. 'grub2' is not installed,
> as shown by 'apt-cache policy' whereas 'grub2-common' is. Maybe its the
> same in your case? 'grub2' is just a dummy package.
I was actually using grub2 generically since it is split into so many
parts, but I am not actually using grub2. I have seen one reponse from
debian-devel that grub2-common 2.00 has not actually been released to
testing, so the automatically generated notice was an error.
Thanks for the response, and sorry for the confusion.
--
Carl Johnson carlj@peak.org
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