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Bug#851893: marked as done (The availability of update-grub does not imply that GRUB is used)

Your message dated Fri, 18 May 2018 10:49:27 +0000
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and subject line Bug#851893: fixed in desktop-base 9.0.6
has caused the Debian Bug report #851893,
regarding The availability of update-grub does not imply that GRUB is used
to be marked as done.

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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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Source: desktop-base
Source-Version: 9.0.6

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
desktop-base, 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 851893@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Aurélien COUDERC <zecoucou@free.fr> (supplier of updated desktop-base package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
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Format: 1.8
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2018 10:20:26 +0100
Source: desktop-base
Binary: desktop-base
Architecture: source
Version: 9.0.6
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Desktop Team <debian-desktop@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Aurélien COUDERC <zecoucou@free.fr>
Description:
 desktop-base - common files for the Debian Desktop
Closes: 851893 879297 897549 898150
Changes:
 desktop-base (9.0.6) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * First release with package sources migrated to git and
     salsa.debian.org!
     - Updated Vcs-* fields accordingly.
     - Add gbp.conf configuration for native package tag names.
     - Add README.contribute for how to contribute with git / salsa.
 .
   * Improve detection of grub efi to choose default background ratio.
   * Add a debian-theme theme for plymouth themes. This should help switching
     the plymouth theme with the rest of the global theme.
   * Try harder detecting if grub is used as bootloader before calling
     update-grub. (Closes: #851893)
   * Misspelled identifier gloabl should be global in softwaves.script.
     (Closes: #898150)
 .
   * Fix FTBFS due to make >= 4.2 being more picky on typos. (Closes: #897549)
   * Bump debhelper version to 11, fix usage of install in Makefiles in the
     move.
   * Drop versioned pre-depends on dpkg for dpkg-maintscript-helper that has
     been available in dpkg since wheezy.
   * Use debian-desktop@l.d.o as Maintainer instead of Gustavo Franco; removed
     Loïc Minier, Fathi Boudra and Eshat Cakar from uploaders. Thanks to all for
     your past work on the package! (Closes: #879297)
   * Bump Standards-Version to 4.1.4 (VCS-* fields already moved to secure URIs
     with the migration to Salsa).
   * Use Rules-Requires-Root: no
   * Fix Lintian issues:
     - unnecessary-testsuite-autopkgtest-header
     - package-uses-deprecated-source-override-location
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