On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 09:08:50AM +1000, Phil Diacono wrote: > There is a lot of dissatisfaction about a problem that causes updates to > Ubuntu 14.04 to fail to boot. Phillip Susi of Ubuntu feels this is not > a bug whereas everyone who runs into feels that it is. We suspect it > may affect many more users and be very detrimental to Ubuntu's reputation.
I have reopened this bug. Phillip, please could you refrain from triaging grub2 bugs in this way? It creates *more* work for me, not less, and does not help. It would in fact help me if there were as few further comments as possible until I have a chance to address this (which I plan to do for 14.04.1), so that I have less to wade through. The hardest bugs to deal with are the ones that have descended into an argument, and rejecting real problems out of hand (and this most certainly is a real problem, probably one of the most common issues reported to me) increases the probability of arguments. Yes, this is complex, and there are indeed some cases that are largely intractable; but I do have some ideas of how my code for dealing with this class of problems could be improved so that at least it affects many fewer people. However, the confrontational approach of "As a developer, I have said there is nothing we can do on our end to mitigate this", without even bothering to check with me whether that's an accurate reflection of the opinions of the person who does most of the work on the grub2 packaging, is not a good starting point for a conversation. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in "error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found" To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
