Re: GRUB 2.12 released

[Daniel Kiper]

On Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 01:30:03AM -0600, Oskari Pirhonen wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 20, 2023 at 18:10:57 +0100, Daniel Kiper wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > GRUB maintainers are proud to announce GRUB 2.12 that has been just 
> > released.
> > You can find list of new features and major fixes since release 2.06 in the
> > NEWS file.
> >
> > We would like to thank all the people who have contributed to the project.
> >
>
> First of all, congrats on releasing. It's been a long time in the

Thank you!

> making. But...

Yeah, I am not happy with that too. I hope we will be releasing yearly
starting from now and shorten release candence at point when it is
needed/possible/...

> > The tarball is available at https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/grub/grub-2.12.tar.xz
> > and its signature at https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/grub/grub-2.12.tar.xz.sig
> >
>
> The release tarball fails to build because the grub-core/extra_deps.lst
> file is not included in it. I just sent a patch which fixes it (at least
> on my end).
>
> Hopefully it works for others too and a new release can be made.

I have just pushed your patch. If more issues will pop up then maybe
I will cut a minor release.

Daniel