On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 11:05:45AM +0200, Martin von Wittich wrote: > apparently, one of our servers still has some GRUB legacy files > installed, which causes `dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc` to tell me that I > have to run `upgrade-from-grub-legacy`. That doesn't work though: [...] > As far as I can tell, the issue occurs because upgrade-from-grub-legacy calls > the postinst directly without providing the DPKG_MAINTSCRIPT_NAME environment > variable (which dpkg would do when it calls a maintainer script), and the > command dpkg-maintscript-helper inside this postinst script then fails because > it requires this variable. > > I've attached a patch that resolves the issue for me.
Thanks! Your patch looks sensible, and I've applied it for the next upload. -- Colin Watson [[email protected]]
