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

[Colin Watson]

On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 08:29:34PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 14, 2018 at 06:40:44PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> No answer is also an answer.  So there is no real reason.

After a week?  Sometimes people are busy.  Your inference is invalid.

> > Given that it seems like this conflict is the only reason why two
> > variants are not cross-installable.
> 
> Attached is a patch to move the two files to grub2-common.  I intend to
> upload this in a few days.

While I acknowledge that this bug is RC, it isn't an emergency and I
don't think you need to do this.  I will consider your patch but have
been busy on a project at work that has a deadline of Wednesday, so
please hold off as if this patch is wrong it will be complicated to
unwind properly.  I promise I'll look at it ASAP after Wednesday.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at debian.org]