Bug#912144: grub2-common: marks kernel update scripts falsely as obsolete conffiles

[Sven Joachim]

On 2018-10-28 15:03 +0000, Colin Watson wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 28, 2018 at 03:42:16PM +0100, TS wrote:
>> since fix for #910959 grub2-common marks kernel update scripts falsely as
>> obsolete conffiles.
>> 
>> % dpkg-query -W -f='${Conffiles}\n' | grep 'grub.*obsolete$'
>>  /etc/kernel/postrm.d/zz-update-grub 536d9d45e3e547638db3c5d58a925b6c obsolete
>>  /etc/kernel/postinst.d/zz-update-grub 536d9d45e3e547638db3c5d58a925b6c obsolete
>> 
>> I tend to rm obsolete conffiles as per definition, which seem to break things here.
>
> Hi debian-dpkg,
>
> I just used Breaks/Replaces here:
>
>   https://salsa.debian.org/grub-team/grub/commit/014ba384bb8ac9869f2ccd2692f8ae05641d5bec
>
> Did I do something wrong, or is this a dpkg bug?

The latter I think, namely https://bugs.debian.org/886389.

Cheers,
       Sven