Comment 115 for bug 420933

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Felix Zielcke (fzielcke) wrote : Re: [Bug 420933] Re: Current grub-pc takes several minutes to show menu

Am Mittwoch, den 20.01.2010, 19:09 +0000 schrieb Jayson:
> Will the fixed package be released in the Karmic repositories?

I can't tell you.

> If not, and I add Felix's PPA to my installation, will I run into any
> problems when I upgrade to Lucid and the latest grub-pc as included in
> those repos in the spring?

My PPA tracks the experimental branch, whereas the normal Ubuntu
packages track trunk. And note that the version number of the packages
from my PPA will (probable) be always higher then the normal packages.

So if you want to switch back to the normal packages the best would be
to remove grub-pc and grub-common and then install the normal ones.
I don't think you need to purge them so the changes to /etc/default/grub
and /etc/grub.d/* files should be kept or dpkg should tell you if
they're differences.

> Also, should this PPA be removed from my software sources before I
> perform the upgrade to Lucid in April?
>
> Thanks!

The PPA also provides the packages for lucid, but currently they're just
copies of the karmic packages. Maybe I should do seperate uploads so
that they get seperately built.
LP doestn't seem to anymore allow it to rebuild then in karmic due to
the same version number.

Feel free to sent me a mail in private for any questions about my PPA.

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Felix Zielcke
Proud Debian Maintainer and GNU GRUB developer