Bug#586462: Description fails to mention USB though image is provided

[Colin Watson]

tags 586462 pending
thanks

On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 02:16:48AM +0800, jidanni at jidanni.org wrote:
> Many users remove this package because they think "floppy? CD-ROM? My
> computer doesn't even have those drives." When in fact all along a USB
> image is included but you forgot to mention it here:
> 
> Description: GRUB bootable rescue images, version 2 (PC/BIOS version)
>  This package contains two GRUB rescue images that have been built for use with
>                        ^^^three
>  traditional PC/BIOS architecture:
> 
>  * grub-rescue-floppy.img: floppy image.
>  * grub-rescue-cdrom.iso: El Torito CDROM image.
> Also mention the third USB image.

Fair point; done.

> Perhaps mention that they are all the same image in fact.

I think that's probably too much detail for the package description.
It's an implementation detail - the floppy image is in fact no longer
the same as the others in current versions (it omits translation files
and some other things in order to fit in the required size).

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at debian.org]