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Re: apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed



Please post as text, not *just* html.

On Wed 23 Jun 2021 at 15:55:04 (+0200), Markus wrote:
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>     Hi, just before and also after today's "apt full-upgrade" apt tells
>     me that:<br>
>     <br>
>     <pre><code>The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required</code>:
> efibootmgr grub-efi-amd64-bin grub-efi-amd64-signed grub2-common
> libappindicator3-1 libcanberra-gtk3-0 libcanberra-gtk3-module
> libclutter-gtk-1.0-0 libdbusmenu-glib4 libdbusmenu-gtk3-4 libindicator3-7
> libupsclient4 linux-headers-5.10.0-0.bpo.4-amd64
> linux-headers-5.10.0-0.bpo.4-common linux-image-5.10.0-0.bpo.4-amd64
> linux-kbuild-4.19 linux-kbuild-5.9 mokutil shim-helpers-amd64-signed
> shim-signed-common
> shim-unsigned
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>     I don't have a good feeling when I see that it allows me to remove <br>
>     "efibootmgr grub-efi-amd64-bin grub-efi-amd64-signed grub2-common"
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>     <br>
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>     What is wrong here? I am on Buster and used kernel
>     5.10.0-0.bpo.5-amd64. With today's
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>     full-upgrade 5.10.0-0.bpo.7-amd64 came in.

Has grub-efi-amd64 been accidentally removed? AIUI that's the package
which depends on having the packages to boot your machine.

Cheers,
David.


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