[Bug 234288] Re: Please merge version 1.96+20080512-1 from Debian unstable

Onkar Shinde onkarshinde at gmail.com
Fri May 23 13:48:20 BST 2008


** Description changed:

  Binary package hint: grub2
  
  Latest Ubuntu changelog:
  
  grub2 (1.96+20080203-1ubuntu2) hardy; urgency=low
  
    * Update 03_ubuntu_grub_standards.
      - Don't show splash screen or quiet mode in single user mode.
  
   -- Mario Limonciello <mario_limonciello at dell.com>  Wed, 05 Mar 2008
  19:05:04 -0600
  
  grub2 (1.96+20080203-1ubuntu1) hardy; urgency=low
  
    * debian/default/grub
      - Show lsb_release rather than statically displaying "Debian" (LP: #192955)
      - Include Ubuntu specific "quiet splash" on default grub command line. 
        (LP: #193024)
    * debian/patches:
      - Add 03_ubuntu_grub_standards to remove GNU/Linux from the
        default string. (LP: #192955)
      - Add 04_convert_root_uuid.diff to default to using UUIDs
        on new GRUB2 installations.  (LP: #192956)
    * debian/control:
      - Update maintainer per XSBC-Original-Maintainer spec.
  
   -- Mario Limonciello <mario_limonciello at dell.com>  Mon, 18 Feb 2008
  14:05:06 -0600
  
  
  Debian changelog since Ubuntu version:
  
  grub2 (1.96+20080512-1) unstable; urgency=low
  
    * New CVS snapshot.
      - Adds support for default-only Linux cmdline options.  (Closes: #460843)
      - Supports Xen virtual block devices.  (Closes: #456777)
      - Supports Virtio block devices.  (Closes: #479056)
      - Supports CCISS block devices.  (Closes: #479735)
      - Fixes handling of more LVM abnormal conditions.  (Closes: #474343,
        #474931, #477175)
  
    * Switch to liblzo2 now that it's GPLv3-compatible.  (Closes: #466375)
    * grub-pc.postinst: Escape \ and / in cmdline sed invokation.
      (Closes: #479279)
  
    [ Updated translations ]
    * Italian (it.po) by Luca Monducci  (Closes: #480740)
  
   -- Robert Millan <rmh at aybabtu.com>  Mon, 12 May 2008 17:46:38 +0200
  
  grub2 (1.96+20080429-1) unstable; urgency=high
  
    * New CVS snapshot.
      - Includes sample grub.cfg file; we use it for grub-rescue-pc.
        (Closes: #478324)
    * grub-common: Upgrade Replaces to << 1.96+20080426-3.  (Closes: #478224,
      #478353, #478144)
  
    [ Updated translations ]
    * French (fr.po) by Christian Perrier  (Closes: #471291)
  
   -- Robert Millan <rmh at aybabtu.com>  Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:27:52 +0200
  
  grub2 (1.96+20080426-1) unstable; urgency=high
  
    * New CVS snapshot.
      - Fixes syntax error when setting GRUB_PRELOAD_MODULES.  (Closes: #476517)
    * Move os-prober to Suggests, to avoid trouble with #476184.
      (Closes: #476684)
    * patches/04_run_grub_mkdevicemap_when_grub_probe_fails.diff: New patch,
      does what its name says.  (Closes: #467127)
      - Also move grub-mkdevicemap from grub-pc to grub-common, so that GRUB
        Legacy can use it.
  
    [ Updated translations ]
    * Basque (eu.po) by Piarres Beobide  (Closes: #476708)
  
   -- Robert Millan <rmh at aybabtu.com>  Sat, 26 Apr 2008 20:06:55 +0200
  
  grub2 (1.96+20080413-1) unstable; urgency=high
  
    * New CVS snapshot.
      - Provides 30_os-prober update-grub add-on.  Thanks Fabian Greffrath.
        (Closes: #461442)
      - Improves robustness when handling LVM.
        (Closes: #474931, #474343)
    * patches/03_disable_floppy_support_in_util_biosdisk.diff: New.  Does
      what its name says.  (Closes: #475177)
  
   -- Robert Millan <rmh at aybabtu.com>  Sun, 13 Apr 2008 13:53:28 +0200
  
  grub2 (1.96+20080408-1) unstable; urgency=low
  
    * New CVS snapshot.
      - grub-probe skips non-existant devices when processing device.map.
      (Closes: #473209)
    * control: Fix syntax error.
  
    [ Updated translations ]
    * Finnish (fi.po) by Esko Arajärvi (Closes: #468641)
  
   -- Robert Millan <rmh at aybabtu.com>  Tue,  8 Apr 2008 15:45:25 +0200
  
  grub2 (1.96+20080228-1) unstable; urgency=low
  
    * New CVS snapshot.
    * Split grub-probe into grub-common package.  Make all flavours depend on it.
      (Closes: #241972)
    * Suggest multiboot-doc.
    * patches/01_grub_legacy_0_based_partitions.diff: New patch.  Add a hack that
      tells grub-probe you want 0-based partition count
      (GRUB_LEGACY_0_BASED_PARTITIONS variable)
    * Stop depending on lsb-release (too heavy! we don't need python in base).
      Instead of assuming it's there, try calling it and otherwise just echo
      Debian.
  
   -- Robert Millan <rmh at aybabtu.com>  Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:43:40 +0100
  
  grub2 (1.96+20080219-3) unstable; urgency=low
  
    * default/grub: Use lsb_release to support Debian derivatives.
      (Closes: #466561)
    * grub.d/05_debian_theme: Only setup background image when a reader for it
      is present in /boot/grub.  (Closes: #467111)
  
    [ Updated translations ]
    * Russian (ru.po) by Yuri Kozlov (Closes: #467181)
  
   -- Robert Millan <rmh at aybabtu.com>  Sun, 24 Feb 2008 15:39:50 +0100
  
  grub2 (1.96+20080219-2) unstable; urgency=high
  
    * grub-pc.postinst: Create /boot/grub if it doesn't exist.
  
   -- Robert Millan <rmh at aybabtu.com>  Wed, 20 Feb 2008 07:15:14 +0100
  
  grub2 (1.96+20080219-1) unstable; urgency=high
  
    * New CVS snapshot.
      - Improves GPT support, allowing it to work without blocklists.
  
   -- Robert Millan <rmh at aybabtu.com>  Tue, 19 Feb 2008 15:05:10 +0100
  
  grub2 (1.96+20080216-1) unstable; urgency=high
  
    * New CVS snapshot.
      - Fixes offset calculation issue when installing on GPT (urgency set
        to high because of this).
    * Fix Vcs-Browser tag.  Thanks James.  (Closes: #465697)
    * Only process grub-pc/linux_cmdline if /boot/grub/menu.lst exists.
      (Closes: #465708)
  
    [ Updated translations ]
    * French (fr.po) by Christian Perrier  (Closes: #465706)
  
   -- Robert Millan <rmh at aybabtu.com>  Sat, 16 Feb 2008 23:30:55 +0100
  
  grub2 (1.96+20080213-1) unstable; urgency=low
  
    * New CVS snapshot.
      - Failure to read one device in a RAID-1 array no longer causes boot
        to fail (so long as there's a member that works).  (Closes: #426341)
    * script: For /proc/mounts, only report lines that start with /dev/.
    * Add new upgrade-from-grub-legacy script for the user to complete the upgrade
      process from GRUB Legacy, and advertise it prominently in menu.lst.
      (Closes: #464912)
    * Add a hack to support gfxterm / background_image on systems where /usr
      isn't accessible.  (Closes: #464911, #463144)
      - grub-pc.postinst
      - grub.d/05_debian_theme
    * Fix a pair of spelling mistakes in debconf.  (Closes: #465296)
    * Migrate kopt from menu.lst.  (Closes: #461164, #464918)
  
    [ Updated translations ]
    * Portuguese (pt.po) by Ricardo Silva (Closes: #465137)
    * German (de.po) by Helge Kreutzmann (Closes: #465295)
  
   -- Robert Millan <rmh at aybabtu.com>  Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:37:13 +0100
  
  grub2 (1.96+20080210-1) unstable; urgency=high
  
    * New CVS snapshot.
      - Errors that cause GRUB to enter rescue mode are displayed now.
        (Closes: #425149)
      - Build LVM/RAID modules into a few commands that were missing them
        (notably, grub-setup).  (Closes: #465033)
    * Fix license violation (incompatibility between GRUB and LZO2).
      (Closes: #465056)
      - Urgency set to high.
      - control: Move liblzo2-dev from Build-Depends to Build-Conflicts
        (leaving liblzo-dev as the only option).
  
   -- Robert Millan <rmh at aybabtu.com>  Sun, 10 Feb 2008 17:09:15 +0100
  
  grub2 (1.96+20080209-1) unstable; urgency=low
  
    * New CVS snapshot.
      - Fix a root device setting issue in grub-setup.  (Closes: #463391)
      - Fix partmap detection under LVM/RAID.
      - Add scripting commands that would allow user to implement hiddenmenu-like
        functionality (http://grub.enbug.org/Hiddenmenu).
      - Provide manpages for grub-setup, grub-emu, grub-mkimage and others.
        (Closes: #333516, #372890)
    * Fix a pair of spelling errors in debconf templates.  Thanks Christian
      Perrier.  (Closes: #464133)
    * Run debconf-updatepo.  (Closes: #463918)
    * Lower base-files versioned dependency to >= 4.0.1~bpo40+1.
  
   -- Robert Millan <rmh at aybabtu.com>  Sat,  9 Feb 2008 13:43:49 +0100
  
  grub2 (1.96+20080203-1ubuntu2) hardy; urgency=low
  
    * Update 03_ubuntu_grub_standards.
      - Don't show splash screen or quiet mode in single user mode.
  
   -- Mario Limonciello <mario_limonciello at dell.com>  Wed, 05 Mar 2008
  19:05:04 -0600
  
  
  grub2 (1.96+20080512-1) unstable; urgency=low
  
    * New CVS snapshot.
      - Adds support for default-only Linux cmdline options.  (Closes: #460843)
      - Supports Xen virtual block devices.  (Closes: #456777)
      - Supports Virtio block devices.  (Closes: #479056)
      - Supports CCISS block devices.  (Closes: #479735)
      - Fixes handling of more LVM abnormal conditions.  (Closes: #474343,
        #474931, #477175)
  
    * Switch to liblzo2 now that it's GPLv3-compatible.  (Closes: #466375)
    * grub-pc.postinst: Escape \ and / in cmdline sed invokation.
      (Closes: #479279)
  
    [ Updated translations ]
    * Italian (it.po) by Luca Monducci  (Closes: #480740)
  
   -- Robert Millan <rmh at aybabtu.com>  Mon, 12 May 2008 17:46:38 +0200
  
  grub2 (1.96+20080429-1) unstable; urgency=high
  
    * New CVS snapshot.
      - Includes sample grub.cfg file; we use it for grub-rescue-pc.
        (Closes: #478324)
    * grub-common: Upgrade Replaces to << 1.96+20080426-3.  (Closes: #478224,
      #478353, #478144)
  
    [ Updated translations ]
    * French (fr.po) by Christian Perrier  (Closes: #471291)
  
   -- Robert Millan <rmh at aybabtu.com>  Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:27:52 +0200
  
  grub2 (1.96+20080426-1) unstable; urgency=high
  
    * New CVS snapshot.
      - Fixes syntax error when setting GRUB_PRELOAD_MODULES.  (Closes: #476517)
    * Move os-prober to Suggests, to avoid trouble with #476184.
      (Closes: #476684)
    * patches/04_run_grub_mkdevicemap_when_grub_probe_fails.diff: New patch,
      does what its name says.  (Closes: #467127)
      - Also move grub-mkdevicemap from grub-pc to grub-common, so that GRUB
        Legacy can use it.
  
    [ Updated translations ]
    * Basque (eu.po) by Piarres Beobide  (Closes: #476708)
  
   -- Robert Millan <rmh at aybabtu.com>  Sat, 26 Apr 2008 20:06:55 +0200
  
  grub2 (1.96+20080413-1) unstable; urgency=high
  
    * New CVS snapshot.
      - Provides 30_os-prober update-grub add-on.  Thanks Fabian Greffrath.
        (Closes: #461442)
      - Improves robustness when handling LVM.
        (Closes: #474931, #474343)
    * patches/03_disable_floppy_support_in_util_biosdisk.diff: New.  Does
      what its name says.  (Closes: #475177)
  
   -- Robert Millan <rmh at aybabtu.com>  Sun, 13 Apr 2008 13:53:28 +0200
  
  grub2 (1.96+20080408-1) unstable; urgency=low
  
    * New CVS snapshot.
      - grub-probe skips non-existant devices when processing device.map.
      (Closes: #473209)
    * control: Fix syntax error.
  
    [ Updated translations ]
    * Finnish (fi.po) by Esko Arajärvi (Closes: #468641)
  
   -- Robert Millan <rmh at aybabtu.com>  Tue,  8 Apr 2008 15:45:25 +0200
  
  grub2 (1.96+20080228-1) unstable; urgency=low
  
    * New CVS snapshot.
    * Split grub-probe into grub-common package.  Make all flavours depend on it.
      (Closes: #241972)
    * Suggest multiboot-doc.
    * patches/01_grub_legacy_0_based_partitions.diff: New patch.  Add a hack that
      tells grub-probe you want 0-based partition count
      (GRUB_LEGACY_0_BASED_PARTITIONS variable)
    * Stop depending on lsb-release (too heavy! we don't need python in base).
      Instead of assuming it's there, try calling it and otherwise just echo
      Debian.
  
   -- Robert Millan <rmh at aybabtu.com>  Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:43:40 +0100
  
  grub2 (1.96+20080219-3) unstable; urgency=low
  
    * default/grub: Use lsb_release to support Debian derivatives.
      (Closes: #466561)
    * grub.d/05_debian_theme: Only setup background image when a reader for it
      is present in /boot/grub.  (Closes: #467111)
  
    [ Updated translations ]
    * Russian (ru.po) by Yuri Kozlov (Closes: #467181)
  
   -- Robert Millan <rmh at aybabtu.com>  Sun, 24 Feb 2008 15:39:50 +0100
  
  grub2 (1.96+20080219-2) unstable; urgency=high
  
    * grub-pc.postinst: Create /boot/grub if it doesn't exist.
  
   -- Robert Millan <rmh at aybabtu.com>  Wed, 20 Feb 2008 07:15:14 +0100
  
  grub2 (1.96+20080219-1) unstable; urgency=high
  
    * New CVS snapshot.
      - Improves GPT support, allowing it to work without blocklists.
  
   -- Robert Millan <rmh at aybabtu.com>  Tue, 19 Feb 2008 15:05:10 +0100
  
  grub2 (1.96+20080216-1) unstable; urgency=high
  
    * New CVS snapshot.
      - Fixes offset calculation issue when installing on GPT (urgency set
        to high because of this).
    * Fix Vcs-Browser tag.  Thanks James.  (Closes: #465697)
    * Only process grub-pc/linux_cmdline if /boot/grub/menu.lst exists.
      (Closes: #465708)
  
    [ Updated translations ]
    * French (fr.po) by Christian Perrier  (Closes: #465706)
  
   -- Robert Millan <rmh at aybabtu.com>  Sat, 16 Feb 2008 23:30:55 +0100
  
  grub2 (1.96+20080213-1) unstable; urgency=low
  
    * New CVS snapshot.
      - Failure to read one device in a RAID-1 array no longer causes boot
        to fail (so long as there's a member that works).  (Closes: #426341)
    * script: For /proc/mounts, only report lines that start with /dev/.
    * Add new upgrade-from-grub-legacy script for the user to complete the upgrade
      process from GRUB Legacy, and advertise it prominently in menu.lst.
      (Closes: #464912)
    * Add a hack to support gfxterm / background_image on systems where /usr
      isn't accessible.  (Closes: #464911, #463144)
      - grub-pc.postinst
      - grub.d/05_debian_theme
    * Fix a pair of spelling mistakes in debconf.  (Closes: #465296)
    * Migrate kopt from menu.lst.  (Closes: #461164, #464918)
  
    [ Updated translations ]
    * Portuguese (pt.po) by Ricardo Silva (Closes: #465137)
    * German (de.po) by Helge Kreutzmann (Closes: #465295)
  
   -- Robert Millan <rmh at aybabtu.com>  Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:37:13 +0100
  
  grub2 (1.96+20080210-1) unstable; urgency=high
  
    * New CVS snapshot.
      - Errors that cause GRUB to enter rescue mode are displayed now.
        (Closes: #425149)
      - Build LVM/RAID modules into a few commands that were missing them
        (notably, grub-setup).  (Closes: #465033)
    * Fix license violation (incompatibility between GRUB and LZO2).
      (Closes: #465056)
      - Urgency set to high.
      - control: Move liblzo2-dev from Build-Depends to Build-Conflicts
        (leaving liblzo-dev as the only option).
  
   -- Robert Millan <rmh at aybabtu.com>  Sun, 10 Feb 2008 17:09:15 +0100
  
  grub2 (1.96+20080209-1) unstable; urgency=low
  
    * New CVS snapshot.
      - Fix a root device setting issue in grub-setup.  (Closes: #463391)
      - Fix partmap detection under LVM/RAID.
      - Add scripting commands that would allow user to implement hiddenmenu-like
        functionality (http://grub.enbug.org/Hiddenmenu).
      - Provide manpages for grub-setup, grub-emu, grub-mkimage and others.
        (Closes: #333516, #372890)
    * Fix a pair of spelling errors in debconf templates.  Thanks Christian
      Perrier.  (Closes: #464133)
    * Run debconf-updatepo.  (Closes: #463918)
    * Lower base-files versioned dependency to >= 4.0.1~bpo40+1.
  
   -- Robert Millan <rmh at aybabtu.com>  Sat,  9 Feb 2008 13:43:49 +0100
  
  grub2 (1.96+20080203-1ubuntu2) hardy; urgency=low
  
    * Update 03_ubuntu_grub_standards.
      - Don't show splash screen or quiet mode in single user mode.
  
   -- Mario Limonciello <mario_limonciello at dell.com>  Wed, 05 Mar 2008
  19:05:04 -0600
  
  
+ 
  Changed in Ubuntu to be dropped
  - Change related to using lsb_release to determine distribution. Merged in Debian.
  
  Changes to be done in Ubuntu
  - Move os-prober to 'Depends' instead of 'Suggests' so that it can be used to detect other operating systems. os-prober in Ubuntu does not suffer from umount problem in Debian version.

** Attachment added: "grub2_1.96+20080512-1ubuntu1.debdiff"
   http://launchpadlibrarian.net/14673468/grub2_1.96%2B20080512-1ubuntu1.debdiff

** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: Onkar Shinde (onkarshinde) => (unassigned)
       Status: In Progress => New

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