Bug#863801: grub-coreboot: fails to upgrade from jessie to stretch if init-select was installed

Niels Thykier niels at thykier.net
Sun Sep 30 07:42:00 BST 2018


On Sun, 2 Jul 2017 03:15:36 +0200 Guillem Jover <guillem at debian.org> wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> [...]
> 
> Isn't the obviously correct and policy compliant approach to just
> Conflicts/Replaces (or Breaks/Replaces depending on the force you want
> to apply here) with the init-select package from one of the grub
> packages, and on that grub package ship a stub init-select.cfg with
> just a comment explaining what's going on. And in the next release cycle,
> just make that package remove its (now) own conffile?
> 
> Thanks,
> Guillem
> 
> 

Hi Colin,

Based on Guillem's reply above, can we do with a Conflicts and close
this bug in buster?

Alternatively, if this bug is not relevant for buster, please tag it
"stretch" and consider fixing it in a pu.

Thanks,
~Niels



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