Bug#556011: grub-pc: does not unintall correctly

[Felix Zielcke]

forcemerge 547679 556011
thanks
Am Freitag, den 13.11.2009, 12:21 +0900 schrieb Norbert Preining:
> Package: grub-pc
> Version: 1.97-1
> Severity: serious
> Justification: Policy 6.6
> 
> grub-pc leaves a lot of files after being purged:
> un  grub-pc        <none>         (no description available)
> 
> $ ls /boot/grub
> (hundreds of .mopd files)

Please see #527068
We added a debconf prompt on purge to remove all files, which defaults
to no though. Seems like you missed that one.
Holger Levsen who filed that piuparts bug agreed with that solution.
I don't think it would be that good if we would remove whole /boot/grub
by default for everyone.

I merge yours now with the 2nd report of Holger, because we still leave
an empty /boot/grub around even though rmdir is run. Just hadn't time
yet to debug this.

> I had to purge that beast since it is a PITA, one addition to the list
> of already posted list of bugs: running update-grub takes ages, if you
> do kernel testing this is a pain
> 

With the next trunk upload this should improve with many kernels.

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Felix Zielcke
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