Bug#1120030: grub2-common: leftover files on purge

Christoph Anton Mitterer calestyo at scientia.org
Tue Nov 4 01:20:54 GMT 2025


Package: grub2-common
Version: 2.14~git20250718.0e36779-2
Severity: normal


Hey.

When purging the package, files are left over:

Removing grub2-common (2.14~git20250718.0e36779-2) ...
Processing triggers for install-info (7.2-5) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.13.1-1) ...
(Reading database ... 125004 files and directories currently installed.)
Purging configuration files for memtest86+ (7.20-1) ...
Purging configuration files for grub2-common (2.14~git20250718.0e36779-2) ...
dpkg: warning: while removing grub2-common, directory '/var/lib/grub/ucf' not empty so not removed

# tree /var/lib/grub/
/var/lib/grub/
└── ucf


Cheers,
Chris.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: forky/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.17.6+deb14-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages grub2-common depends on:
ii  gettext-base        0.23.1-2+b1
ii  libc6               2.41-12
ii  libdevmapper1.02.1  2:1.02.205-2
ii  libefiboot1t64      39-2
ii  libefivar1t64       39-2
ii  libfreetype6        2.13.3+dfsg-1
ii  libfuse3-4          3.17.4-1
ii  liblzma5            5.8.1-2

Versions of packages grub2-common recommends:
pn  os-prober  <none>

Versions of packages grub2-common suggests:
ii  console-setup  1.244
ii  desktop-base   14.0.0~pre2
pn  grub-emu       <none>
pn  mtools         <none>
pn  multiboot-doc  <none>
ii  xorriso        1.5.6-1.2+b1

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme changed [not included]

-- no debconf information


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