Bug#190392: ITP: grub-disk -- GRUB bootable disk image

[Robert Millan <zeratul2@wanadoo.es>]

On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 12:27:34PM +0200, Christian Hammers wrote:
> Hello

Hi

> Sorry, misunderstanding: I liked to say that 1.4MB is waste regardless of the
> package merging or not, because the data can be gathered from the already 
> installed packages and put together on the fly.. 

ah, ok. not much waste then as it's 88KB :)

> I was of the opinion that this grub-disk image creating is a very small
> and simple script that is not very error prone and moreover would very
> very unlikely be important enough to grub.deb to justify even an important 
> bug.

actualy not. mkbimage is a small script, but a big can of worms. i had to
spend much time fixing FTBFS errors untill grub-disk was ready.

in a bad situation, grub-disk with a serious FTBFS bug could miss the
release freeze. i think we shouldn't risk grub into that.

> Ok, extra package is better than no script at all so it's up to you. But
> maybe you merge the two packages when yours has matured...

yes, i had that option in mind already. when grub-disk is well tested and
enters the testing branch, etc. i'll speak with the GRUB maintainer about
merging.

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