Bug#501306: update-grub fails silently with wrong device.map

[Raphael Hertzog]

On Wed, 29 Oct 2008, Felix Zielcke wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 29.10.2008, 14:30 +0100 schrieb Robert Millan:
> 
> > I don't like that it is an ugly hack, in the sense that we're trying to stop
> > reliing on this sort of heuristic, and this only works around the problem.
> > Our long-term fix is to use only reliable identifiers like UUIDs.
> > 
> > But since all of this is temporary, I suppose we could live with it.  Felix,
> > what do you think?
> 
> I agree. 

Indeed, it's too late for any major change in lenny at this point and this
is a good compromise IMO.

Robert, I saw that you comitted the fix in SVN with a version 0.97-52 but
unstable/lenny has 0.97-47, and the changes in between are probably
unwanted by release managers. Will you prepare a 0.97-47lenny1 version
for unstable ?

I wanted to ask you to upload shortly to get the RC bug count down but I
noticed that grub also suffers from #500336. We need to get the ball
rolling there too. There's a patch but Ian wanted something even better.
I'll follow-up there.

Regards,
-- 
Raphaël Hertzog

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