Bug#910959: grub-cloud-amd64: missing Conflicts: grub-coreboot, grub-efi-ia32, grub-ieee1275, grub-xen

[Bastian Blank]

Hi grub maintainers

On Sat, Oct 13, 2018 at 09:33:26PM +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> Here is a list of files that are known to be shared by both packages
> (according to the Contents file for sid/amd64, which may be
> slightly out of sync):
> 
> etc/kernel/postinst.d/zz-update-grub
> etc/kernel/postrm.d/zz-update-grub

Is there are particular compelling reason why this files needs to be
duplicated in all grub-* packages, instead of residing in
grub(2)-common?  They are not even different from each other.

Given that it seems like this conflict is the only reason why two
variants are not cross-installable.

Bastian

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