[Splashy-devel] Bug#539239: grub2 deprecated vga=, splashy sort of needs it

[Gonzalo Bermúdez]

Package: splashy
Version: 0.3.13-5
Severity: normal

grub-pc now uses gfxpayload to define console video mode, and complains that vga= is deprecated and shouldn't be used.
However, /etc/init.d/splashy relies on vga= or video= to detect if a framebuffer video mode is defined. If you do remove vga= as grub2 suggests, and use default video settings (which translates in: none), splashy won't be enabled in multiuser runlevels.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages splashy depends on:
ii  initramfs-tools        0.93.4            tools for generating an initramfs
ii  libc6                  2.9-23            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdirectfb-1.2-0      1.2.7-2           direct frame buffer graphics - sha
ii  libgcc1                1:4.4.1-1         GCC support library
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.20.4-1          The GLib library of C routines
ii  libmagic1              5.03-1            File type determination library us
ii  libsplashy1            0.3.13-5          Library to draw splash screen on b
ii  lsb-base               3.2-23            Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-14 compression library - runtime

splashy recommends no packages.

Versions of packages splashy suggests:
ii  console-common                0.7.83     basic infrastructure for text cons
pn  splashy-themes                <none>     (no description available)
pn  upstart                       <none>     (no description available)

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