General Questions • [Software] Is the 'grub-customizer' rubbish?

Hello,

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Looking here, it seems there will be the the 'grub-customizer' in trixie and sid
https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/grub-customizer

Am I wrong using that program and am I risking my installations?
Are those warning I hear a bit exaggerated?

From the point of view of a developer/maintainer, if I remember correctly, a package is migrated from Debian testing to Debian stable at release time if it has no "release-critical" (RC) bugs opened [1]:

Certain severities are considered release-critical, meaning the bug will have an impact on releasing the package with the stable release of Debian. Currently, these are critical, grave and serious.

Searching the Ultimate Debian Database (UDD) for RC bugs:

• https://udd.debian.org/dev/bugs.cgi?rel ... ml#results

the grub-customizer is not listed, so it is currently not affected by RC bugs.

The violation of Debian 10.7.4 policy reported in [2] is questionable because the two packages (grub and grub-customizer) do not (strictly speaking) share the grub configuration files (i.e. grub-customizer does not install the grub configuration file at install time).

A bug report should be submitted for each sistematic program failure (if any). It is important that the bug is reported with all the details that make it reproducible.

Hope this helps.

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[1] Information regarding the bug processing system for package maintainers and bug triagers
[2] Debian Bug report logs - #1010165 grub-customizer: Inappropriate package, modifies other package's (conf) files, should be removed from archive

Statistics: Posted by Aki — 2024-12-30 18:47 — Replies 4 — Views 100

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