** Description changed:

  Description:  Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS
  Release:      16.04
  
  grub-efi-amd64:
    Installed: 2.02~beta2-36ubuntu3.10
    Candidate: 2.02~beta2-36ubuntu3.10
    Version table:
   *** 2.02~beta2-36ubuntu3.10 500
          500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-proposed/main amd64 
Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
       2.02~beta2-36ubuntu3.9 500
          500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 
Packages
       2.02~beta2-36ubuntu3 500
          500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages
  
  Line 699 of the following post-installation script
  
  /var/lib/dpkg/info/grub-efi-amd64.postinst
  
  reads thus, after the latest update.
  
        if dpkg --compare-versions "$2" lt-nl 2.02~beta2-36ubuntu3.10 then
  
  Notice the missing semicolon before the then clause of the if statement.
  
  It should really be
  
        if dpkg --compare-versions "$2" lt-nl 2.02~beta2-36ubuntu3.10 ;
  then
  
  Fortunately, I noticed the issue from the dist-upgrade output, and fixed
  it before rebooting the machine as requested by Software Updater, or
  there is no telling where I could have been stuck.
  
+ After patching it, one needs to rerun
+ 
+ sudo apt -y dist-upgrade
+ 
+ so the postinst script is actually correctly run.
+ 
  This is a major bug for an LTS release.
  
  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
  Package: grub-efi-amd64 2.02~beta2-36ubuntu3.10
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-79.100-generic 4.4.67
  Uname: Linux 4.4.0-79-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: wl nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm nvidia_modeset nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.6
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Sat May 20 12:20:02 2017
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-05-23 (361 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 
(20160420.1)
  JournalErrors:
   Error: command ['journalctl', '-b', '--priority=warning', '--lines=1000'] 
failed with exit code 1: Hint: You are currently not seeing messages from other 
users and the system.
         Users in the 'systemd-journal' group can see all messages. Pass -q to
         turn off this notice.
   No journal files were opened due to insufficient permissions.
  SourcePackage: grub2
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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  bash syntax error in the postinst script

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