Bug#688739: grub-common: modifies conffiles during upgrade (policy 10.7.3): /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 2012-09-25 12:22, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 11:58:36AM +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
>> during a test with piuparts I noticed that some package modifies your
>> conffile /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme during the squeeze->wheezy
>> distupgrade.
> 
> Do you have any way to tell what does that?  To the best of my
> knowledge, nothing in the GRUB packaging itself touches this conffile in
> impermissible ways.

I tried to debug this a bit more, tried to blame it on debsums
(#688914), but maybe it should better be blamed on dpkg.
/etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme is a conffile owned by grub-pc in squeeze
and grub-common in wheezy. Looks like this takeover is not handled properly.


Andreas