On Wed, Nov 29, 2023 at 01:51:59PM +0100, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > On Wed, Nov 29, 2023 at 01:42:55PM +0100, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > > Revert "templates: Remove unused version comparison functions" > > and add a warning to the functions that they are deprecated. > > > > Removing the functions directly caused a lot of upgrade issues > > w/ custom user scripts that called the functions. In Debian and > > Ubuntu, grub-mkconfig is invoked as a post-installation script > > and would fail, causing upgrades to fail halfway through and > > putting the package manager into an inconsistent state. > > FWIW, we get one bug per 2 weeks basically, for an interim > Ubuntu release which generally does not receive much usage, > that is a high number. > > The proposal is to pick this for 2.12 and directly after > the release remove it again. Then users will have time > to fix their scripts without systems breaking immediately.
I will add these two paragraphs to the commit message. Otherwise Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.ki...@oracle.com>... Daniel _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
