Package: grub-pc Version: 2.06-3~deb11u4 Thanks for pulling in fixes to image and font handling for grub in 2.06-3~deb11u4 -- that additional security is much appreciated.
On many machines, i've been running grub through a serial console for years, which doesn't exercise any of the image or font-handling code. On some of those machines, grub lives in its own small (16MiB) /boot/grub partition. With the changes from the aforementioned versions, grub itself (along with unicode.pf2) is significantly larger, enough so that "dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc" fails with this error message: ``` Installing for i386-pc platform. grub-install: error: cannot copy `/usr/share/grub/unicode.pf2' to `/boot/grub/fonts/unicode.pf2': No space left on device. ``` The failure comes from when the postinst script for grub-pc invokes grub-install. In practice, i can make the installation work with the rather janky command: grub-install /dev/Xda --fonts '' (where Xda is the appropriate disk) It ought to be possible for the grub postinst script to know that it's being installed in a minimal configuration and omit installing unicode.pf2. for example, if /etc/default/grub contains GRUB_TERMINAL=serial or GRUB_TERMINAL=console then it should be acceptable to omit the font. thanks for maintaining grub in debian! --dkg
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