[Acked/cmt] [Quantal linux-meta] Prevent linux-crashdump from replacing grub-efi

[Stefan Bader]

On 09.10.2012 13:38, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 12:22:07PM +0200, Stefan Bader wrote:
>> BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1064259
>>
>> When playing with linux-crashdump on an EFI installed system I realized
>> that grub-efi was thrown away and replaced by grub-pc which did not
>> seem to good.
>>
>> Apparently we do not consider grub-efi as an alternative in the
>> depends. With this added (I took the version of grub-efi in Lucid)
>> at least grub-efi remains installed and a normal boot still works.
>>
>> Only the actual crash-dump seems to explode on this system with
>> backtraces showing a log of xhci... /me bangs head.
>>
>> Still it sounds like we probably want to add this to meta packages
>> for P and L at least.. and Q of course...
> 
> It cirtainly seems inappropriate to be removing grub-efi to install
> anything, ever :).
> 
>>
>> From 1b53289d1e4be597b2d865d0ed89465853ee2950 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader at canonical.com>
>> Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2012 11:31:30 +0200
>> Subject: [PATCH] UBUNTU: Ubuntu-3.5.0.17.19
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader at canonical.com>
>> ---
>>  meta-source/debian/changelog      |    7 +++++++
>>  meta-source/debian/control.common |    2 +-
>>  2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/meta-source/debian/changelog b/meta-source/debian/changelog
>> index bb83f7a..47edf88 100644
>> --- a/meta-source/debian/changelog
>> +++ b/meta-source/debian/changelog
>> @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
>> +linux-meta (3.5.0.17.19) quantal-proposed; urgency=low
>> +
>> +  * Make linux-crashdump alternatively depend on grub-efi.
>> +    LP: #1064259
>> +
>> + -- Stefan Bader <stefan.bader at canonical.com>  Tue, 09 Oct 2012 11:28:08 +0200
>> +
>>  linux-meta (3.5.0.17.18) quantal-proposed; urgency=low
>>  
>>    * Add new meta-packages for linux-signed-* images.
>> diff --git a/meta-source/debian/control.common b/meta-source/debian/control.common
>> index 725b34d..5273800 100644
>> --- a/meta-source/debian/control.common
>> +++ b/meta-source/debian/control.common
>> @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ Description: Generic Linux kernel image.
>>  Package: linux-crashdump
>>  Architecture: i386 amd64
>>  Section: devel
>> -Depends: ${misc:Depends}, kexec-tools, makedumpfile, grub-pc (>= 1.96+20090611-1ubuntu2) | grub (>= 0.97-29ubuntu24)
>> +Depends: ${misc:Depends}, kexec-tools, makedumpfile, grub-pc (>= 1.96+20090611-1ubuntu2) | grub-efi (>= 1.98-1ubuntu5) | grub (>= 0.97-29ubuntu24)
> 
> How did you choose this version of grub-efi, it seems arbitrary from
> outside.

As I wrote, this is the version of grub-efi in the release pocket of Lucid (oh
well maybe I did not verbosely enough). The other grub versions are based on
something post-Hardy. Right now Lucid is the next number to that, that I could
easily find.

> 
> But asssuming that this is a meaningful version:
> 
> Acked-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw at canonical.com>
> 
> -apw
> 


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