Package: grub-common Version: 1.98+20100804-14 Severity: normal File: /usr/lib/grub/grub-mkconfig_lib
I used lenny with kernel from squeeze through backports. Then I upgraded to squeeze. It was strange to me that after reboot, the machine still booted the kernel from backports and not the one from squeeze. The versions of linux-image packages: $ dpkg -l | grep linux-image | grep 2.6.32 | awk ii linux-image-2.6-amd64 2.6.32+29 ii linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64 2.6.32-35squeeze1 ii linux-image-2.6.32-bpo.5-amd64 2.6.32-31~bpo50+1 I traced it to line 185 in grub-mkconfig_lib file, where /boot/vmlinux-* filenames are compared using dpkg --compare-versions. If however the regular expression on line 173 of the same file gets "bpo" alongside "pre", "rc", "git" etc., it seems to resolve the issue (but I did not test it extensively to make sure it does not introduce new issues, nor have I any intimate knowledge of the "bpo" package naming scheme). >From brief inspection of the grub-mkconfig_lib file, it seems that the same buggy logic is present in the unstable version of the package as well (the line numbers there are 218 and 206). So this is probably a bug in the debian/patches/dpkg_version_comparison.patch source package file. -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.2 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-bpo.5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages grub-common depends on: ii base-files 6.0squeeze2 Debian base system miscellaneous f ii dpkg 1.15.8.11 Debian package management system ii gettext-base 0.18.1.1-3 GNU Internationalization utilities ii install-info 4.13a.dfsg.1-6 Manage installed documentation in ii libc6 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libdevmapper1.02.1 2:1.02.48-5 The Linux Kernel Device Mapper use ii libfreetype6 2.4.2-2.1+squeeze1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime Versions of packages grub-common recommends: ii os-prober 1.42 utility to detect other OSes on a Versions of packages grub-common suggests: pn grub-emu <none> (no description available) pn multiboot-doc <none> (no description available) pn xorriso <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
