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  • Bug#1108070: grub2: Removal of mkconfig-other-inits.patch violates the

    From Chris Hofstaedtler@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jun 20 09:10:01 2025
    Control: severity -1 wishlist
    Control: tags -1 - patch

    * ProwlerGr <Prowler73@gmail.com> [250620 05:39]:
    Please accept - examine & apply my proposed patch (included) to close this out

    The patch is incorrect for Debian. It also does not remove support
    for the established inits with the established coordination methods
    for switching inits.

    Downgrading severity to avoid wasting time of people involved with
    QA and release.

    Best,
    Chris

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  • From ProwlerGr@1:229/2 to All on Fri Jun 20 05:40:01 2025
    From: Prowler73@gmail.com

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    Source: grub2
    Version: 2.12-8
    Severity: serious
    Tags: patch
    Justification: Appendix "8.2" - Violates outcome of 2019 GR
    X-Debbugs-Cc: Prowler73@gmail.com

    Dear Maintainer,

    Please revert the deletion of patch mkconfig-other-inits.patch'
    I can't see justification for this to be removed (eg closes bug xxx), either on git or through the changelog.


    Refer to discussion here:

    https://salsa.debian.org/grub- team/grub/-/commit/bdc71248132521f3d0fb506e84b478be349fbcae#57fc750524807a0da244e17a3a27a57bf55ba59d

    It shouldn't be acceptable to remove perfectly working code that Debian derivatives (such as antiX & MX) utilise to offer exploration of alternative inits.
    Please accept - examine & apply my proposed patch (included) to close this out


    -- System Information:
    Debian Release: 13.0
    APT prefers testing
    APT policy: (500, 'testing')
    Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
    Foreign Architectures: i386

    Kernel: Linux 5.10.236-antix.1-amd64-smp (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
    Kernel taint flags: TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
    Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
    Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
    Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

    From: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
    Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2015 12:04:59 +0000
    Subject: Generate alternative init entries in advanced menu

    Add fallback boot entries for alternative installed init systems. Based
    on patches from Michael Biebl and Didier Roche.

    Bug-Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/757298
    Bug-Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/773173
    Forwarded: no
    Last-Update: 2017-06-23

    Patch-Name: mkconfig-other-inits.patch
    Last-Update: 2025-06-20

    --- grub2-2.12.orig/util/grub.d/10_linux.in
    +++ grub2-2.12/util/grub.d/10_linux.in
    @@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ export TEXTDOMAIN=@PACKAGE@
    export TEXTDOMAINDIR="@localedir@"

    CLASS="--class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os" +SUPPORTED_INITS="sysvinit:/lib/sysvinit/init systemd:/lib/systemd/systemd upstart:/sbin/upstart s6-rc:/lib/s6-rc/s6-rc-init s6-66:/lib/s6-66/s6-66-init openrc:/lib/openrc/openrc-init runit:/lib/runit/runit-init dinit:/lib/dinit/dinit shepherd:/lib/
    shepherd/shepherd"

    if [ "x${GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR}" = "x" ] ; then
    OS=GNU/Linux
    @@ -395,6 +396,13 @@ for linux in ${reverse_sorted_list}; do

    linux_entry "${OS}" "${version}" advanced \
    "${GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX} ${GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT}"
    + for supported_init in ${SUPPORTED_INITS}; do
    + init_path="${supported_init#*:}"
    + if [ -x "${init_path}" ] && [ "$(readlink -f /sbin/init)" != "$(readlink -f "${init_path}")" ]; then
    + linux_entry "${OS}" "${version}" "init-${supported_init%%:*}" \
    + "${GRUB_CMDLI