Re: GRUB 2.06

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

On 4/20/21 7:34 PM, Didier Spaier wrote:
> So, it's hard to understand for many end users that:
> 
> 1. The issue appeared after gcc-10 began to be used, well after the release 
> of grub 2.04.
> 2. It has been fixed long ago.
> 3. But for the fix to be effective one of these conditions should be met:
> a. A new grub version has been released and is provided by the distribution 
> they use.
> b. The distributon they use patches the source of GRUB 2.04 to bring the fix.
> c. The distribution they use provides a package build from a source pulled 
> from with the patch already committed.
> 
> Unfortunately if none of these conditions is met many users tend
> to blame GRUB instead of the distributions and go saying in fora "I'll avoid 
> to use GRUB, it's broken"

I think it's reasonable to expect from a distribution that they backport 
upstream fixes, at
least in Debian, openSUSE and Fedora, it isn't a problem.

Adrian

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