On 4/20/21 7:34 PM, Didier Spaier wrote: > So, it's hard to understand for many end users that: > > 1. The issue appeared after gcc-10 began to be used, well after the release > of grub 2.04. > 2. It has been fixed long ago. > 3. But for the fix to be effective one of these conditions should be met: > a. A new grub version has been released and is provided by the distribution > they use. > b. The distributon they use patches the source of GRUB 2.04 to bring the fix. > c. The distribution they use provides a package build from a source pulled > from with the patch already committed. > > Unfortunately if none of these conditions is met many users tend > to blame GRUB instead of the distributions and go saying in fora "I'll avoid > to use GRUB, it's broken"
I think it's reasonable to expect from a distribution that they backport upstream fixes, at least in Debian, openSUSE and Fedora, it isn't a problem. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913 _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
