Bug#782156: grub-xen: unowned files after purge (policy 6.8, 10.8): /boot/grub/{locale, x86_64-xen}/* and some more

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 2015-05-02 17:47, Ian Campbell wrote:
> IMHO either /boot/grub/* should be whitelisted for piuparts (based on
> the above argument regarding making systems unbootable) or the existing
> debconf template and postrm code for grub-pc should be applied to all
> grub-* and not just extended to cover grub-xen.
> 
> BTW, the grub-pc debconf question grub-pc/postrm_purge_boot_grub
> defaults to false, meaning it shouldn't be cleaning up after itself. I'm
> not sure then why it apparently passes piuparts...

Depends on whether leaving stuff raises an error (only on a few tests)
or ignored (usually).

piuparts can preseed such "extended cleanup modes" that are disabled by
default for a good reason. But usually someone needs to tell me that
there is one :-)

If I find some time I'll revisit the piuparts handling of grub-*.


Andreas