Control: tags -1 + pending On Fri, 2017-07-14 at 18:58 +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > Control: tags -1 + confirmed > > On Mon, 2017-07-10 at 01:59 +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > > Control: tag -1 - moreinfo > > > > On 2017-07-01 02:32, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > > Andreas Beckmann <a...@debian.org> (2017-06-30): > > >> init-select contains a grub config snippet that unconditionally runs a > > >> command, which will cause failures (in update-grub and friends) if > > >> init-select was removed but not purged. > > >> This was noticed on jessie->stretch upgrades of coreboot where > > >> init-select was installed in jessie (but gets removed during the upgrade > > >> to stretch). > > > > > I accidentally noticed a thread on debian-ctte@ about this. It would be > > > helpful to have a summary of what was agreed on there, and to make sure > > > grub people are in the loop. > > > > Discussion over there has ceased. > > To summarize it in one sentence: > > grub is encouraged to claim ownership of that conffile and take the > > neccessary measures to fix this bug on upgrades to stretch. > > > > I havent heard of any progress on the grub side ... > > but since it is also reproducible in plain jessie (the neccessary > > sequence is just not covered by the default piuparts tests), let's fix > > init-select in jessie, too. > > That seems a reasonable idea from my reading of the TC discussion.
Uploaded and flagged for acceptance. Regards, Adam