Bug#1121168: grub-common leaves filled /usr/share/doc/grub-common aronud
Elmar Ludwig
elmar.ludwig at uos.de
Thu Dec 4 20:32:21 GMT 2025
I saw the same issue today on a debian testing system with a fairly long
update history (but not on a more recent installation).
Here, the cause seems to be an obsolete(?) symlink:
/usr/share/doc# ls -ld grub*common
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Dec 4 21:02 grub-common
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Dec 16 2015 grub2-common -> grub-common
/usr/share/doc# dpkg -S /usr/share/doc/grub2-common/*
grub2-common: /usr/share/doc/grub2-common/AUTHORS
grub2-common: /usr/share/doc/grub2-common/NEWS.Debian.gz
grub2-common: /usr/share/doc/grub2-common/NEWS.gz
grub2-common: /usr/share/doc/grub2-common/README
grub2-common: /usr/share/doc/grub2-common/THANKS
grub2-common: /usr/share/doc/grub2-common/TODO
grub2-common: /usr/share/doc/grub2-common/changelog.Debian.gz
grub2-common: /usr/share/doc/grub2-common/changelog.gz
grub2-common: /usr/share/doc/grub2-common/copyright
grub2-common: /usr/share/doc/grub2-common/examples
The files installed to /usr/share/doc/grub-common (due to the symlink)
actually belong to the grub2-common package.
Regards,
Elmar Ludwig
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