Bug#919029: grub-pc: meaningless message "RUB boot loader was previously installed..."

[Colin Watson]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 04:01:33PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2019-02-26 12:44:41 +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> > Of course, the grub-pc maintainer script doesn't know either.  All it
> > has available to it is a /dev/disk/by-id/ path that no longer points to
> > a disk.  The case I had in mind when writing that code, and I think
> > almost certainly the overwhelmingly common case, is where the disk in
> > question has been removed; the edge case that we have here is where the
> > disk in question is still installed but its supposedly fixed ID has
> > changed.
> 
> But note that even in the case where the disk has been removed, it
> could also be a temporary removal (either physical, or virtual, with
> VM's). So, it is also important to preserve the information in this
> case.

It's moot, since I think it winds up essentially the same as the work I
did for your bug.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at debian.org]