Please Sync Grub2 1.96 (universe) from Debian unstable (main)

[Shirish Agarwal]

Binary package hint: grub2

HI all,
    Debian did a new cvs snapshot http://packages.debian.org/sid/grub2 . Here's the changelog file

Changes since the latest version in Ubuntu:
 grub2 (1.96+20080203-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New CVS snapshot (and release, but we skipped that ;-))
     - patches/01_regparm.diff: Delete.
     - Improved XFS support.
     - util/grub.d/00_header.in: Add runtime error detection (for gfxterm).
     - Fixes problem when chainloading to Vista.
   * Fix po-debconf errors. Thanks Thomas Huriaux. (Closes: #402972)
   * grub.d/05_debian_theme:
     - Add runtime error detection.
     - Detect/Enable PNG background when it is present.
   * control (grub-ieee1275): Remove versioned dependency on powerpc-ibm-utils.

 -- Robert Millan <email address hidden> Sun, 3 Feb 2008 19:31:23 +0100
grub2 (1.95+20080201-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New CVS snapshot.
   * presubj: Improve notice.
   * patches/01_regparm.diff: Fix CPU context corruption affecting fs/xfs.c.
     (Closes: #463081, #419766, #462159)
   * patches/02_libgcc_powerpc_hack.diff: Fix FTBFS on powerpc. (Closes: #457491)
   * patches/disable_xfs.diff: Actually remove this time...

 -- Robert Millan <email address hidden> Fri, 1 Feb 2008 17:06:00 +0100
grub2 (1.95+20080128-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New CVS snapshot.
     - Fixes bogus CLAIM problems on Apple firmware. (Closes: #449135, #422729)
     - grub-probe performs sanity checks to make sure our filesystem drivers
       are usable. (Closes: #462449)
     - patches/disable_ata.diff: Remove. ATA module isn't auto-loaded in
       rescue floppies now.
     - patches/disable_xfs.diff: Remove. See above (about grub-probe).
   * Bring back grub-emu; it can help a lot with debugging feedback.
     - control
     - rules

 -- Robert Millan <email address hidden> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 00:01:11 +0100
grub2 (1.95+20080116-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * grub.d/05_debian_theme: Enable swirlish beauty.
   * rules: Obtain debian/legacy/update-grub dynamicaly from GRUB Legacy svn.

 -- Robert Millan <email address hidden> Sat, 19 Jan 2008 13:16:18 +0100
grub2 (1.95+20080116-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New CVS snapshot.
     - update-grub ignores stale *.dpkg-* files. (Closes: #422708, #424223)
     - LVM/RAID now working properly (except when it affects /boot).
       (Closes: #425666)
     - Fixes flickery in timeout message. (Closes: #437275)
   * grub-pc.postinst: Use `--no-floppy' whenever possible. Die, floppies,
     die!
   * Resync with latest version of GRUB Legacy's update-grub. This time,
     using the $LET_US_TRY_GRUB_2 hack to reuse the same script both for
     addition of core.img and its removal.
   * grub-*.install: Add update-grub2 stub. Packages providing /etc/grub.d/
     scripts should invoke update-grub2 in both postinst and postrm (whenever
     it is found, of course).
   * control: Reorganize a bit, including a complete rewrite of the
     package descriptions.
   * control (grub-ieee1275): Enable for i386/amd64.

 -- Robert Millan <email address hidden> Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:00:54 +0100
grub2 (1.95+20080107-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New CVS snapshot.
     - Supports ReiserFS. (Closes: #430742)
     - patches/disable_ata.diff: Resync.

 -- Robert Millan <email address hidden> Mon, 7 Jan 2008 12:46:39 +0100
grub2 (1.95+20080105-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * grub-pc.postinst: Fix covered assumption that menu.lst exists.
     (Closes: #459247)
   * copyright: Fix copyright/license reference.

 -- Robert Millan <email address hidden> Sun, 6 Jan 2008 18:02:28 +0100
grub2 (1.95+20080105-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New CVS snapshot.
     - Fixes install on non-devfs systems with devfs-style paths (ouch).
       (Closes: #450709).
     - Fixes boot of "Linux" zImages (including memtest86+). (Closes: #436113).
     - Corrects usage message in grub-setup. (Closes: #458600).
     - patches/menu_color.diff: Remove. Made obsolete by `menu_color_normal'
       and `menu_color_highlight' variables. Add/install grub.d/05_debian_theme
       to make use of them.
   * Reestructure grub-pc.postinst. Notably:
     - Do not touch menu.lst unless user has confirmed it (via debconf).
       (Closes: #459247)
     - When we do, keep a backup in /boot/grub/menu.lst_backup_by_grub2_postinst.

 -- Robert Millan <email address hidden> Sat, 5 Jan 2008 17:55:37 +0100
grub2 (1.95+20080101-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New CVS snapshot.
     - patches/disable_xfs.diff: Rewrite in a way that won't collide with
       upstream changes so often.
     - unifont.hex now processed by upstream.
       - rules: Disable build of unifont.pff.
       - *.install: Remove build/unifont.pff line.
     - patches/menu_color.diff: Change menu color to our traditional blue theme.
   * Support new dpkg fields (Homepage, Vcs-Svn, Vcs-Browser).
   * patches/disable_ata.diff: Prevent ATA module from being built on i386-pc.

 -- Robert Millan <email address hidden> Tue, 1 Jan 2008 19:45:30 +0100

Can somebody sync with this?

I don't know why the last time we did the sync we didn't get the binaries, but can somebody ensure that binaries happen this time around. Thank you.

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+search?text=grub2

Copying from whatever I see.

Source Package "grub2" in Ubuntu

    * hardy (admin): 1.95+20080128-1
      This package has no binaries
    * gutsy (admin): 1.95+20070604-1ubuntu1
      Binary Packages:
      grub2 grub-pc grub-efi grub2 grub-of grub2 grub-pc grub-efi

[Tormod Volden (tormodvolden)]

The last one failed to build on powerpc (https://edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/1.95+20080128-1/+build/503396).

[Tormod Volden (tormodvolden)]

And the powerpc build is fixed upstream and should be in the new Debian version (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2008-02/msg00009.html),

[Daniel Hahler (blueyed)]

ACK.

@Tormod: please do not confirm sync requests, unless you are MOTU/in ubuntu-universe-sponsors.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Package(s) synced.