Proposed release goal: Switch to GRUB2

[Otavio Salvador]

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Hello,

We, the GRUB team, want to swtich to GRUB2 due many reasons, basicaly:

 - easier to maintain;
 - better codebase;
 - multi-arch support;
 - active upstream;

Our current plan is to finish the update-grub2 merging on upstream
side (being handled by Robert) and then upload a new package to
Debian. This package after moving to lenny ought be set as default
boot-loader in grub-installer (while we still offer grub as an option
during the test cicle).

The upgrade from grub to grub2 will be transparent since menu.list can
be automaticaly converted to the new format and this will be in place
when we start the default boot-loader change.

After doing it, we intend to drop grub from archive since it's a bunch
of patches difficult to maintain and hard to follow.

Thoughts?

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