Am Montag, den 21.09.2009, 01:56 +0200 schrieb Simon Dreher: > Hello, > > why was the dependency (recommendation) on os-prober removed? With the > automagical upgrade to grub2, many users will have the same problem of > lost other OSes. I would highly recommend to reopen the bug as an > important one, until os-prober is recommended by grub2. Letting any > debian user with a (suddenly no more working) dual-boot system search > for the loss of his OS is not really nice! Specially, as grub2 seems to > be totally undocumented! > I would even say that "grave" or "critical" would be the right priority > - for an average user, the other OSes are suddenly lost. >
The recommendation was not removed but again added. Note that I changed the unversioned Suggests: os-prober to Recommends: os-prober (>= 1.32) (>= 1.33 in SVN, so next upload) >= 1.32 is not yet in squeeze because the mipsel buildd admin didn't upload it yet. But you can still just install the old version under squeeze. If you don't have a luks partition it works fine, except that it can happen that the filesystems don't get unmounted properly. And second this is clearly _not_ release critical. Debian isn't Ubuntu. Not everyone uses other OS'es on their computer. Escpecially Debian gets used on servers, where os-prober isn't at all useful. Just because os-prober didn't get yet installed by default doestn't make the package useless for everyone. -- Felix Zielcke Proud Debian Maintainer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
