Bug#954718: grub-installer: update templates for UEFI and other media than hard disks

2020-03-22 Thread Holger Wansing
Package: grub-installer Severity: wishlist Tags: patch grub-installer contains outdated template strings, which should be updated in regard of: - MBR is outdated -> UEFI came as a successor; - hard disks are no longer the only/mainly used storage media (depending on architecture); these days we

Bug#954718: grub-installer: update templates for UEFI and other media than hard disks

2020-03-22 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 3/22/20 3:59 PM, Holger Wansing wrote: > - MBR is outdated -> UEFI came as a successor; What about the boot mechanisms of all other architectures? Open-Firmware machines use GRUB as well and they have a boot sector. Other architectures use GRUB via chainloading with uboot, so you need to incl

Bug#954718: grub-installer: update templates for UEFI and other media than hard disks

2020-03-22 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 04:09:53PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >On 3/22/20 3:59 PM, Holger Wansing wrote: >> - MBR is outdated -> UEFI came as a successor; > >What about the boot mechanisms of all other architectures? > >Open-Firmware machines use GRUB as well and they have a boot secto

Bug#935334: debootstrap: man page says that --include will add package to download and extract list, but an experiment shows opposite

2020-03-22 Thread Askar Safin
Steps to reproduce: * Get fresh sid system with debootstrap installed * Run: debootstrap --include=aptitude --foreign sid /tmp/sid * Then run: ls /tmp/sid/usr/bin/aptitude I expected to see: /tmp/sid/usr/bin/aptitude I see instead: ls: cannot access '/tmp/sid/usr/bin/aptitude': No such file or d

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