Bug#939160: grub-efi-amd64-signed: not installable, broken dependencies

Matteo F. Vescovi mfv at debian.org
Mon Sep 2 11:42:14 BST 2019


Hi Colin!

On Mon, Sep 2, 2019 at 12:31 PM Colin Watson <cjwatson at debian.org> wrote:
> You're using unstable, which isn't guaranteed to stay
> dependency-consistent.  The way that the signed GRUB packages work means
> that there'll always be a short window after a grub2 upload to unstable
> when the corresponding signed packages aren't available yet, and you ran
> into that window.

Unlucky me, then! :-P

> grub-efi-amd64-signed should be installable again now in unstable; but
> if you want to avoid ever running into this problem, you'd be better off
> running testing.

But I'm a DD, I've always run unstable/sid and I'm ok with facing
these issues. No problem at all. ;-)
But it was necessary to report the problem, so other people could
discover it'd be addressed, sooner or later.
Thanks for fixing the issue so quickly!

Cheers.

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