On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 09:34:43AM -0000, Loïc Minier wrote:
> I wonder a couple of things on this MIR:
> - "process apt data": I grepped the source on apt and didn't find anything relevant; is this true? Perhaps a leftover from copying a MIR of another package?
> - I see the package handles the "DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST" block, but it doesn't call update-grub; I suspect it tries to update generated data itself; this doesn't sound right as its current behavior might not be aligned with update-grub's and it might derive even more if we change update-grub (e.g. "last good boot"); what do you think?
I agree that, if this package doesnt provide something we can do
through update-grub its usually a better maintenance approach to do
that instead of revinventing the wheel. How easy would it be to fix
the package to use update-grup instead?
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 09:34:43AM -0000, Loïc Minier wrote:
> I wonder a couple of things on this MIR:
> - "process apt data": I grepped the source on apt and didn't find anything relevant; is this true? Perhaps a leftover from copying a MIR of another package?
> - I see the package handles the "DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST" block, but it doesn't call update-grub; I suspect it tries to update generated data itself; this doesn't sound right as its current behavior might not be aligned with update-grub's and it might derive even more if we change update-grub (e.g. "last good boot"); what do you think?
I agree that, if this package doesnt provide something we can do
through update-grub its usually a better maintenance approach to do
that instead of revinventing the wheel. How easy would it be to fix
the package to use update-grup instead?
- Alexander