grub2 doesn't give/have version info.

[Shirish Agarwal]

Binary package hint: grub2

Hi all,
 If I use grub --version I get the following :-

$grub --version

grub (GNU GRUB 0.97)

I ams shown the various utilities which grub2 has but can't find version info.

~$ grub-
grub-editenv grub-install grub-mkimage grub-probe grub-setup
grub-emu grub-mkdevicemap grub-mkrescue grub-set-default

Or even tried this :-

 grub2 --version
bash: grub2: command not found

The only way I am able to find version info. is using dpkg -l grub2$ dpkg -l grub2
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-=========================-=========================-==================================================================
ii grub2 1.96+20080724-12ubuntu1 GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (dummy package)

This IMHO is a regression which should be fixed.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: grub2 1.96+20080724-12ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=/home/username/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_IN
SourcePackage: grub2
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic i686

[Chris Halse Rogers (raof)]

Running $GRUB_UTILITY --version gives the correct version for that utility. For example: grub-emu --version responds with
"""
grub-emu (GRUB) 1.96
"""
Since there is no grub2 executable, and it doesn't make sense to have one, I don't think this is a bug.