Bug#692246: grub2: grub-mkimage 1.99-23.1 still lacks the XZ support

[Steven Shiau]

On 11/18/2012 06:34 PM, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 04, 2012 at 12:10:31PM +0800, Steven Shiau wrote:
>> Package: grub-common
>> Version: 1.99-23.1
>> Severity: important
>>
>> Dear Maintainer,
>> The XZ support for grub-mkimage has been marked as done in #688773. 
>> However, I am still having the problem to use it:
>> $ grub-mkimage -C xz -O i386-pc -o myxz.img
>> grub-mkimage: error: grub-mkimage is compiled without XZ support.
> 
> #688773 had nothing whatsoever to do with grub-mkimage support for xz
> compression.  It was about compression of the .deb files.
Oops... I thought it's about grub-mkimage support for xz compression.
> 
> You filed this at Severity: important - could you explain?  Why is this
> important to you?  I didn't previously have plans to backport '-C xz'
> support to the 1.99 packaging, as there doesn't seem any particularly
> urgent need for it.
The reason I filed it at Severity: important was because I thought it's
about grub-mkimage support for xz compression, and it was tagged as
fixed, but not.
Anyway, please ignore it.
Thanks.

Steven.

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