the default grub config has a quirk of using the syslinux splash when
present, which as a sidenote i believe is because only the syslinux script
has the code for converting an SVG (i've not researched to confirm).
the problem is that the default splash is such, with the text listing
package versions used, that this overlaps with the menu title in grub.
i've tweaked the "built on" and package details text to reduce its size
(bumped the line-height up slightly though) to avoid the overlap.
this was a pain in the *** to get done. inkscape likes to crash at the
slightest little thing like clicking on interface controls; each time it
saves it seems to swap a bunch of stuff in the file which can make a
hugely messy diff, i had to save, close, open, change, undo, and save
again, just to get a sain diff; and numerous times testing different sizes
and such in actual builds (rather than separate conversions) some of the
package detail lines would for some unknown reason decide to end up on the
same line as another, wth...
anyway, i've finally managed to get a new revision successfully created
and it seems bug free wrt. that same line issue to me, both converting
outside of live-build (in my sid host), and within a buster build. the size
of the text changed seems closer to the size of the actual menu entries
(there's no need for it to be bigger), and now is nicely clear of the menu
title.
Gbp-Dch: Short
opening the file in inkscape resulted in a dialog explaining that inkscape
used to work on a 90 DPI basis but switched to 96 DPI for better
compatibility reasons, and wanted to convert the file.
this is simply the result of it having done the conversion.
it advised that for documents not intended to be printed that there should
be no noticeable difference. i checked the output and it seems identical
to before. i tried to look at the actual diff, but it's a lot of noise,
most of which is just reordering, and i gave up, since the output looks
identical i'm not going to worry.
Gbp-Dch: Ignore
there are several files of which identical duplicate copies are held in:
- share/bootloaders/extlinux
- share/bootloaders/pxelinux
- share/bootloaders/isolinux
- share/bootloaders/syslinux
it is a pain to maintain this from a development standpoint, having to
copy modified config files into the other directories each time changes
are made and mistakes have been made before due to this.
this creates a new folder share/bootloaders/syslinux_common and moves them
to this new directory.
it also expands the binary_syslinux stage to use it, with it now
constructing the installed set of bootloader files as follows:
1. copy {LB_DIR}/bootloaders/syslinux_common
2. copy {LB_DIR}/bootloaders/{syslinux|isolinux|extlinux|pxelinux} on top
3. copy config/bootloaders/syslinux_common on top
4. copy config/bootloaders/{syslinux|isolinux|extlinux|pxelinux} on top
note, to explain part of the binary_syslinux change, instead of just
copying the correct bootloader folder full of the files, we now make the
target bootloader specific directory, then copy the contents of source
directories into it.
Gbp-Dch: Short
Lyndon Brown