feedback - grub 2.02~beta2-3 , why does it say it's an i386-pc platform while upgrading ?

[shirish शिरीष]

Hi all,
First of all thanx for everybody for doing the impressive work they do
with state of grub packaging. It would be nice if at some point we
have grub work with UEFI with some consistency (the only reason
preventing me buying a new laptop/desktop because of UEFI).

I saw Colin Watson's call for manual testing on p.d.o

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~cjwatson/blosxom/2014/01/18#2014-01-18-testing-wanted-grub-2.02-beta2

I went and found out how things were stacked at my end :-

$ apt-show-versions -a grub-pc
grub-pc:amd64 2.00-22 install ok installed
grub-pc:amd64 2.00-22      testing      debian.ec.as6453.net
No testing-updates version
grub-pc:amd64 2.00-22      unstable     debian.ec.as6453.net
grub-pc:amd64 2.02~beta2-3 experimental debian.ec.as6453.net
grub-pc:amd64/testing 2.00-22 uptodate

Figured all the dependencies and upgraded it :-

$ sudo aptitude install grub-pc=2.02~beta2-3 grub2-common=2.02~beta2-3
grub-pc-bin=2.02~beta2-3 grub-common=2.02~beta2-3 grub2=2.02~beta2-3
grub-theme-starfield=2.02~beta2-3 -y

The following packages will be upgraded:
  grub-common grub-pc grub-pc-bin grub-theme-starfield grub2-common grub2
6 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 6,392 kB of archives. After unpacking 7,309 kB will be used.
Get: 1 http://debian.ec.as6453.net/debian/ experimental/main grub-pc
amd64 2.02~beta2-3 [173 kB]
Get: 2 http://debian.ec.as6453.net/debian/ experimental/main
grub-pc-bin amd64 2.02~beta2-3 [873 kB]
Get: 3 http://debian.ec.as6453.net/debian/ experimental/main
grub2-common amd64 2.02~beta2-3 [497 kB]
Get: 4 http://debian.ec.as6453.net/debian/ experimental/main
grub-theme-starfield amd64 2.02~beta2-3 [2,144 kB]
Get: 5 http://debian.ec.as6453.net/debian/ experimental/main
grub-common amd64 2.02~beta2-3 [2,702 kB]
Get:6 http://debian.ec.as6453.net/debian/ experimental/main grub2
amd64 2.02~beta2-3 [2,492 B]
Fetched 6,392 kB in 13min 5s (8,139 B/s)
Retrieving bug reports... Done
Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done
apt-listchanges: Mailing root: apt-listchanges: changelogs for debian
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 410950 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../grub-pc_2.02~beta2-3_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking grub-pc (2.02~beta2-3) over (2.00-22) ...
Preparing to unpack .../grub-pc-bin_2.02~beta2-3_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking grub-pc-bin (2.02~beta2-3) over (2.00-22) ...
Preparing to unpack .../grub2-common_2.02~beta2-3_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking grub2-common (2.02~beta2-3) over (2.00-22) ...
Preparing to unpack .../grub-theme-starfield_2.02~beta2-3_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking grub-theme-starfield (2.02~beta2-3) over (2.00-22) ...
Preparing to unpack .../grub-common_2.02~beta2-3_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking grub-common (2.02~beta2-3) over (2.00-22) ...
Preparing to unpack .../grub2_2.02~beta2-3_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking grub2 (2.02~beta2-3) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.6.5-3) ...
Processing triggers for install-info (5.2.0.dfsg.1-2) ...
Setting up grub-common (2.02~beta2-3) ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/bash_completion.d/grub ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/grub.d/00_header ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/grub.d/10_linux ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/grub.d/20_linux_xen ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/grub.d/30_uefi-firmware ...
Setting up grub2-common (2.02~beta2-3) ...
Setting up grub-pc-bin (2.02~beta2-3) ...
Setting up grub-pc (2.02~beta2-3) ...
Setting up grub2 (2.02~beta2-3) ...
Installing for i386-pc platform.
Installation finished. No error reported.
Generating grub configuration file ...
Found background: /usr/share/images/grub/Moraine_Lake_17092005.tga
Found background image: /usr/share/images/grub/Moraine_Lake_17092005.tga
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.12-1-amd64
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.12-1-amd64
done
Setting up grub-theme-starfield (2.02~beta2-3) ...
Current status: 0 updates [-5].

Now I haven't re-booted the system (yet) and while everything else
seems fine, I am a bit concerned as to why it says

"Installing for i386-pc platform."

Shouldn't it be saying something like "Installing on x86-64 pc
platform " or something on those as this is on 64-bit system ?

Update :- rebooted , no problems.

About the system itself, nothing fancy. It's an Intel Dual-Core CPU
E5400 (soc 775) @ 2.70GHz, onboard Intel G33, Asus MB P5KPL-AM IN
(Intel G31)

the filesystem is ext4 and kernel is 3.12 .

Please lemme know if any more info. is needed.
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          Shirish Agarwal  शिरीष अग्रवाल
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