[Bug 2120944] Re: Please remove NBS package grub-common

[Simon Chopin]

On mar. 19 août 2025 14:22:42, Mate Kukri wrote:
> This isnt Ubuntu specific delta, the same change also happened in Debian
> experimental.
>
> It would be nice to move those packages to directly depend on
> grub2-common, but not really necessary in the short term because
> grub2-common Provides: grub-common

Alright, let me frame my questions differently: this is all about tech
debt management. This change adds tech debt both on grub itself
(additional delta is debt), which you've addressed, *and* on the wider
archive.

Yes, it's low impact, but it's still debt. Can we have an actual *plan*
rather than an explanation why we don't need to solve this right now?
For instance, I would leave the Debian-inherited packages alone, relying
on Debian to take care of it eventually, and file a bug against the
Ubuntu-specific packages.

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Title:
  Please remove NBS package grub-common

Status in grub2 package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  grub-common was merged into grub2-common and no longer required.

  grub2-common now has a Provides: grub-common, so the new grub2-common
  can satisfy reverse-dependencies on grub-common.

  These reverse deps cannot easily be all updated to directly refer to
  grub2-common because we would like grub-
  efi-{amd64,arm64}-{bin,unsigned} to remain binary copyable to older
  series.

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