[Bug 1611740] Re: remove grub, superseded by grub2

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre]

grub legacy support is indeed removed from grub-installer now (see above
upload comment).

However, grub is apparently still required when building new AMI
instances for EC2. I think it probably best not be removed until we can
ascertain its use. I've asked the CPC team already.

According to the AWS docs:
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/create-instance-store-ami.html
grub-legacy is still used to build images. I've used an approximation of that logic to try to make a new AMI, and it looks like things still work without it, except that the status monitoring then fails for the instance.


** Changed in: grub (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

** Changed in: grub (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => High

** Changed in: grub (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)

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Title:
  remove grub, superseded by grub2

Status in grub package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete
Status in grub-installer package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  remove grub, superseded by grub2; all reverse dependencies are gone,
  or alternatives starting with grub-pc | [...]

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