On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 03:03:40PM +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote: > Robert filed already after the upload of grub-legacy a RC bug so it > doestn't migrate after the usual 10 days to testing. > > Note that we only Suggests: os-prober and not Recommend: it like Ubuntu > does because of 491872 > So if anyone want to help that we Recommend it again, then help the > os-prober maintainers to fix that bug.
I don't know the specifics, but wouldn't it be possible for os-prober to create its own private mount name space (see clone(2), CLONE_NEWNS), and do the probing inside that name space? That way the desktop environments would not be able to intercept it. Gabor -- --------------------------------------------------------- MTA SZTAKI Computer and Automation Research Institute Hungarian Academy of Sciences --------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org