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On Tue, Jul 12, 2022 at 07:36:04PM +0000, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
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> which was filed against the grub-customizer package:
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> #1010165: grub-customizer: Inappropriate package, modifies other package's 
> (conf) files, should be removed from archive
> 
> It has been closed by Debian FTP Masters <[email protected]> 
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> Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2022 19:33:49 +0000
> From: Debian FTP Masters <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Reply-To: xiao sheng wen <[email protected]>
> Subject: Bug#1010165: fixed in grub-customizer 5.2.1-1
> Message-Id: <[email protected]>
> 

> Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2022 17:35:51 +0200
> From: Julian Andres Klode <[email protected]>
> To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]>
> Subject: grub-customizer: Inappropriate package, modifies other package's
>  (conf) files, should be removed from archive
> Message-ID: <[email protected]>
> Accept-Language: de-DE, de, en-GB, en-US, en
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> Package: grub-customizer
> Severity: important
> X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
> 
> As documented in 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-release-upgrader/+bug/1969353/comments/5,
> grub-customizer modifies conffileso owned by grub2, thus violating the
> recommendations outlined in Policy 10.7.4.
> 
> The solution is brittle, not integrated with grub2, and should therefore
> not be part of Debian.

This bug is of course still valid. Any configuration needs to be done
by the grub package itself and not by hacky unendorsed third party
hacks. 

It's good the upgrade bug is fixed, but this still does not belong
in Debian IMO.

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