Control: tags -1 + confirmed On Mon, 2017-07-10 at 01:59 +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > Control: tag -1 - moreinfo > > On 2017-07-01 02:32, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > Andreas Beckmann <a...@debian.org> (2017-06-30): > >> init-select contains a grub config snippet that unconditionally runs a > >> command, which will cause failures (in update-grub and friends) if > >> init-select was removed but not purged. > >> This was noticed on jessie->stretch upgrades of coreboot where > >> init-select was installed in jessie (but gets removed during the upgrade > >> to stretch). > > > I accidentally noticed a thread on debian-ctte@ about this. It would be > > helpful to have a summary of what was agreed on there, and to make sure > > grub people are in the loop. > > Discussion over there has ceased. > To summarize it in one sentence: > grub is encouraged to claim ownership of that conffile and take the > neccessary measures to fix this bug on upgrades to stretch. > > I havent heard of any progress on the grub side ... > but since it is also reproducible in plain jessie (the neccessary > sequence is just not covered by the default piuparts tests), let's fix > init-select in jessie, too.
That seems a reasonable idea from my reading of the TC discussion. Regards, Adam
