Source: grub2 Version: 2.14~git20250718.0e36779-2 Severity: normal Hey.
Getting rid of grub-common seems to have left over some files: Purging configuration files for grub-common (2.14~git20250718.0e36779-2) ... dpkg: warning: while removing grub-common, directory '/usr/share/doc/grub-common' not empty so not removed # tree /usr/share/doc/grub-common /usr/share/doc/grub-common ├── examples │ └── grub.cfg ├── AUTHORS ├── NEWS.Debian.gz ├── NEWS.gz ├── README ├── THANKS ├── TODO ├── changelog.Debian.gz ├── changelog.gz └── copyright None of them is registered anymore to any package: # dpkg -S /usr/share/doc/grub-common dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /usr/share/doc/grub-common though it seems they're still "used": # ls -ald /usr/share/doc/grub* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 May 18 2011 /usr/share/doc/grub2-common -> grub-common drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 184 Nov 2 16:42 /usr/share/doc/grub-common lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Jun 19 2021 /usr/share/doc/grub-efi -> grub-common lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Sep 18 2023 /usr/share/doc/grub-efi-amd64 -> grub-efi-amd64-bin drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 108 Nov 2 16:42 /usr/share/doc/grub-efi-amd64-bin lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Jul 10 2024 /usr/share/doc/grub-efi-amd64-unsigned -> grub-common lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 May 18 2011 /usr/share/doc/grub-pc-bin -> grub-common The current grub2-common package should have all these files in /usr/share/doc/grub2-common, see: # dpkg -L grub2-common | grep doc /usr/share/doc /usr/share/doc/grub2-common /usr/share/doc/grub2-common/AUTHORS /usr/share/doc/grub2-common/NEWS.Debian.gz /usr/share/doc/grub2-common/NEWS.gz /usr/share/doc/grub2-common/README /usr/share/doc/grub2-common/THANKS /usr/share/doc/grub2-common/TODO /usr/share/doc/grub2-common/changelog.Debian.gz /usr/share/doc/grub2-common/changelog.gz /usr/share/doc/grub2-common/copyright /usr/share/doc/grub2-common/examples /usr/share/doc/grub2-common/examples/grub.cfg Before the upgrade, i.e. still on version 2.12-9, this looked like: # dpkg -S /usr/share/doc/grub-common/* grub-common: /usr/share/doc/grub-common/AUTHORS grub-common: /usr/share/doc/grub-common/changelog.Debian.gz grub-common: /usr/share/doc/grub-common/changelog.gz grub-common: /usr/share/doc/grub-common/copyright grub-common: /usr/share/doc/grub-common/examples grub-common: /usr/share/doc/grub-common/NEWS.Debian.gz grub-common: /usr/share/doc/grub-common/NEWS.gz grub-common: /usr/share/doc/grub-common/README grub-common: /usr/share/doc/grub-common/THANKS grub-common: /usr/share/doc/grub-common/TODO So there seems a bit of a messup. 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 6.16.12+deb14+1-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)
