Dear Maintainer,

   * What led up to the situation?

   The present refind package is outdated even in sid and testing.
   The actual upstream allready fixied this issue.

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?

   I was trying to install refind, but could not see the installed
   kernels in the chooser. The reason wasn't even reported in refinds
   logfile.
   Another user in an internet forum pointed me to the refinds upstream
   Changelog, where yoz can read at realease 0.14.0 (3/4/2023):

       "The ext4fs driver now ignores the metadata_csum_seed flag,
       which is being set by default in e2fsprogs version 1.47.0
       and later. Not ignoring the flag caused the driver to fail
       to read such filesystems. Thanks to Martin Whitaker for the
       relevant patch."

   * What was the outcome of this action?

   I installed the uptream release and everything worked!

As noted in the bug report, the problem has been fixed in a more recent
version of rEFInd. The latest is 0.14.2. Please update rEFInd in Debian
to that version. Note that I'm the upstream maintainer of rEFInd, and
I've received a notice that rEFInd will be removed from Debian because
of this bug; but it's been fixed upstream, so updating the Debian
package is the appropriate response, not removing it from Debian!

Hey Rod, sorry!  This *is* on my TODO list, I just haven't had time to
pick it up yet.  It should be a pretty trivial bump.

To clarify though, it will be removed from testing, which is only a
temporary thing -- once the bug is fixed in unstable and the
appropriate time passes, it would migrate back into testing again.  As
long as we get it fixed and migrated back in before testing freeze,
all is well.  However, we've also got a decent amount of time before
it's even removed from testing (Sep 4), so I'd rather not urgently
upload a bump that I haven't tested, which is why this isn't fixed
yet.  (To make sure I didn't bork up the packaging, to be clear, not
because I don't have faith in your new upstream release! 💙)

I'll try to get the bump into Git ASAP
(https://salsa.debian.org/debian/refind, which you should have access
to as well, but if you don't we should fix that!), and see about when
I can get it tested and uploaded. 🙇

♥,
- Tianon
  4096R / B42F 6819 007F 00F8 8E36  4FD4 036A 9C25 BF35 7DD4

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
refind, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 1078055@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Tianon Gravi <tianon@debian.org> (supplier of updated refind package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2024 20:27:49 -0700
Source: refind
Architecture: source
Version: 0.14.2-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Rod Smith <rod.smith@canonical.com>
Changed-By: Tianon Gravi <tianon@debian.org>
Closes: 1056706 1078055
Changes:
 refind (0.14.2-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Update to 0.14.2 upstream release (Closes: #1056706)
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