Package: desktop-base Version: 9.0.0 Severity: serious Justification: Package fails to install because of this
Hi! People who want to have the GRUB binaries installed (for example to create VM images with GRUB), but don't want to use GRUB as their bootloader will (in the case of classic PCs) have the grub-pc-bin [0] and grub2-common [1] packages installed, but not the grub-pc [2] package as this contains the scripts for the automatic installation. This works fine, but unfortunately, desktop-base's postinst contains the following code: 202 # Apply GRUB background update into /boot 203 if which update-grub > /dev/null ; then 204 # Ensure the background image file has actually been written to disc 205 # before updating. 206 sync 207 update-grub 208 fi Since update-grub is shipped by the grub2-common package (see [3]), this test is wrong. The fact that update-grub is available does not imply that the system uses GRUB to boot. Since update-grub will obviously fail to run if GRUB is not installed to /boot, this bug causes desktop-base's postinst to fail, making the package uninstallable on such systems. Best regards Alexander Kurtz [0] https://packages.debian.org/sid/grub-pc-bin [1] https://packages.debian.org/sid/grub2-common [2] https://packages.debian.org/sid/grub-pc [3] https://packages.debian.org/sid/amd64/grub2-common/filelist
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