ti 6.5.2025 klo 11.13 Miao Wang (shankerwangm...@gmail.com) kirjoitti: > > On Sat, 26 Apr 2025 10:37:51 +0300 =?utf-8?q?Martin-=C3=89ric_Racine?= > <martin-eric.rac...@iki.fi> wrote: > > Package: ipxe > > Version: 1.0.0+git-20190125.36a4c85-5.1 > > Followup-For: Bug #1102120 > > X-Debbugs-Cc: martin-eric.rac...@iki.fi > > > > The problem with spliting the package is that, upon upgrade, ipxe will > > loose its GRUB menu. This is not a desirable outcome. > > > > Please revert this. > > > > Thanks. > > > > Hi, > > Thanks for letting me know this problem. I understand your concern that > users installing the ipxe package will notice the grub menu is missing > after the upgrade. However, to support installing correct ipxe image(s) > for booting the current machine, as I have mentioned in #1093500, the > package should be arch-dependent. However, the ipxe package also provides > images for booting other machines (might be used with other softwares to > provide pxe booting services), which should be arch-independent. As a > result, the separation is necessary.
It is NOT necessary. > To overcome for the possible disruption to the users, I have added a > NEWS entry to notify the users who want a grub menu to install the split > ipxe-grub. That's not gonna help. People will still lose their GRUB menu entry upon upgrading. This could break their installation, if they're expected to boot from PXE by default. Martin-Éric
