Bug#387325: grub: NEWS gives wrong advice

[Manoj Srivastava]

Package: grub
Version: 0.97-15
Severity: normal

        The news says to replace the absulurte paths in
 /etc/kernel-img.conf from /sbin/update-grub to just update-grub.
 This means that any kernel image currently on the system that has
 been built using a versions of kernel-package less than 10.056 would
 fail to run update-grub on removal.

        The version of kernel-package that fixes the postrm for kernel
 images is not yet in the archive; so  telling users to use
 non-absolute paths is premature.

        There is not reason to do so either: having the hook scripts
 point to /usr/bin/update-grub instead would work for the mid term,
 and allow for a clean transition.  As it stands, the NEWS file advice
 causes broken behaviour for kernel images.

        manoj

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17.13-mh5-skas3-v9-pre9
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8)

Versions of packages grub depends on:
ii  libc6                        2.3.6.ds1-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libncurses5                  5.5-3       Shared libraries for terminal hand

grub recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information

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