Package: grub-common Version: 2.14~git20250718.0e36779-2 Severity: normal Hi,
grub-common has recently become a transitional package. Somehow before that, the grub-common package lost its contents in /usr/share/doc/grub-common, but that conten is still in the filesystem: [6/4758]mh@swivel:~ $ ls -al /usr/share/doc/grub-common/ total 416K drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 184 Nov 4 10:40 ./ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 108K Nov 21 07:45 ../ -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 669 Jul 18 16:39 AUTHORS -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17K Nov 2 12:08 changelog.Debian.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 336K Jul 18 16:39 changelog.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23K Nov 2 12:08 copyright drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 16 Nov 4 10:40 examples/ -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 242 Nov 2 12:08 NEWS.Debian.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9,2K Jul 18 16:39 NEWS.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1,1K Jul 18 16:39 README -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1,4K Jul 18 16:39 THANKS -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 318 Jul 18 16:39 TODO [7/4759]mh@swivel:~ $ dpkg --listfiles grub-common /. /usr /usr/share /usr/share/bug /usr/share/bug/grub-common /usr/share/bug/grub-common/presubj /usr/share/bug/grub-common/script /usr/share/doc /usr/share/doc/grub-common [8/4760]mh@swivel:~ $ This leaves the docs around even after purging grub-common. I can see this on four unstable installations. I didn't try a fifth. Frankly, I do not understand how this could happen, dpkg is supposed to delete files that were in the installed version of a package and are no longer in the new version of a package. So this might as well be a dpkg bug. I am sorry that I don't have enough time these days to investigate this further. Greetings Marc -- Package-specific info: *********************** BEGIN /proc/mounts /dev/mapper/swivelbtr0 / btrfs rw,relatime,ssd,discard=async,space_cache=v2,subvolid=256,subvol=/root 0 0 /dev/mapper/boot /boot ext4 rw,relatime 0 0 /dev/nvme0n1p1 /boot/efi vfat rw,relatime,fmask=0077,dmask=0077,codepage=437,iocharset=ascii,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro 0 0 *********************** END /proc/mounts *********************** BEGIN /boot/grub/grub.cfg -- System Information: Debian Release: forky/sid APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'oldstable-security'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 6.17.6+deb14-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages grub-common depends on: ii grub2-common 2.14~git20250718.0e36779-2 grub-common recommends no packages. grub-common suggests no packages. -- Configuration Files: /etc/grub.d/00_header changed [not included] /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme changed [not included] /etc/grub.d/10_linux changed [not included] /etc/grub.d/20_linux_xen changed [not included] /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober changed [not included] -- no debconf information
