Bug#768329: grub-common: Please enable splash for jessie

[Laurent Bigonville]

On Thu, 06 Nov 2014 15:53:58 +0100 Christian Hofstaedtler
<zeha at debian.org> wrote:

> Dear Maintainers,

Hello,

> 
> thank you for maintaining GRUB in Debian.
> 
> Please add the "splash" option to the Linux default command line, as
> just installing plymouth otherwise has no effect, and plymouth is the
> recommended solution for fixing bootup multiplexing issues (f.e.
> password prompting for encrypted disks).

Shouldn't this be handled by the plymouth package itself (that I
recently adopted)?

I was actually thinking about reverting the logic and always enable it
if installed unless some boot parameter are passed (upstream is using
"plymouth.enable=0", we could use the same or "nosplash" or both).

But, ATM plymouth is pulled by other packages because some libraries
are bundled in it and we have some bugs that should IMHO be fixed
first: #766462 and #602331.

> 
> I consider this issue being important as it would improve setups
> running with the default init (systemd) and any other event-based
> inits.

I agree with you. I guess we should start some discussion with the
release team to see how we should proceed.

> Thank you,
> Christian