Package: grub2-common Version: 2.14-1 Severity: serious After I upgraded grub from 2.12-9 to 2.14-1 and removed the resulting grub-common dummy package, which gave the warning
dpkg: warning: while removing grub-common, directory '/usr/share/doc/grub-common' not empty so not removed I now have lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 2015-09-06 03:13:12 /usr/share/doc/grub2-common -> grub-common/ where grub-common contains the files, but this breaks "dpkg -S": cventin:~> dpkg -S /usr/share/doc/grub-common dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /usr/share/doc/grub-common grub2-common 2.12-9 had the above symlink: lrwxrwxrwx root/root 0 2025-07-03 18:35:51 ./usr/share/doc/grub2-common -> grub-common but grub2-common 2.14-1 has drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2026-02-05 11:50:50 ./usr/share/doc/ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2026-02-05 11:50:50 ./usr/share/doc/grub2-common/ -rw-r--r-- root/root 669 2018-11-24 18:13:02 ./usr/share/doc/grub2-common/AUTHORS -rw-r--r-- root/root 242 2026-02-05 11:50:50 ./usr/share/doc/grub2-common/NEWS.Debian.gz -rw-r--r-- root/root 9594 2026-01-14 16:46:20 ./usr/share/doc/grub2-common/NEWS.gz -rw-r--r-- root/root 1043 2021-06-08 14:15:20 ./usr/share/doc/grub2-common/README -rw-r--r-- root/root 1398 2018-11-24 18:13:02 ./usr/share/doc/grub2-common/THANKS -rw-r--r-- root/root 318 2018-11-24 18:13:02 ./usr/share/doc/grub2-common/TODO -rw-r--r-- root/root 16905 2026-02-05 11:50:50 ./usr/share/doc/grub2-common/changelog.Debian.gz -rw-r--r-- root/root 376801 2026-01-14 19:46:54 ./usr/share/doc/grub2-common/changelog.gz -rw-r--r-- root/root 22963 2026-02-05 11:50:50 ./usr/share/doc/grub2-common/copyright drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2026-02-05 11:50:50 ./usr/share/doc/grub2-common/examples/ -rw-r--r-- root/root 1705 2018-11-24 18:13:02 ./usr/share/doc/grub2-common/examples/grub.cfg So something bad occurred during the upgrade. I suppose that the symlink /usr/share/doc/grub2-common should have been dropped first, so that the above files could have been installed directly in a real directory "/usr/share/doc/grub2-common". -- System Information: Debian Release: forky/sid APT prefers unstable-debug APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'proposed-updates-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 6.18.8+deb14-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages grub2-common depends on: ii gettext-base 0.23.2-1 ii libc6 2.42-12 ii libdevmapper1.02.1 2:1.02.205-2 ii libefiboot1t64 39-2 ii libefivar1t64 39-2 ii libfreetype6 2.14.1+dfsg-2 ii libfuse3-4 3.18.1-1 ii liblzma5 5.8.2-2 Versions of packages grub2-common recommends: ii os-prober 1.84 Versions of packages grub2-common suggests: ii console-setup 1.245 ii desktop-base 14.0.0~pre2 pn grub-emu <none> pn mtools <none> pn multiboot-doc <none> pn xorriso <none> -- no debconf information -- Vincent Lefèvre <[email protected]> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Pascaline project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
