On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 01:33:34PM -0000, Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre wrote: > Looks like we only install grub (legacy) if we're about to install grub- > pc and "grub-installer/grub2_instead_of_grub_legacy" is preseeded to > false, which typically doesn't happen. It's default is true, and we > don't set this in ubiquity or d-i.
> grub-legacy-ec2 installs some data for EC2 instances that is relevant to > grub; we should definitely look at how we'd affect it by removing grub > (but I think it's safe there) > The open question that remains is handling upgrades. grub (0.97-29ubuntu68) xenial; urgency=medium * No-change rebuild for ncurses6 transition. -- Matthias Klose <[email protected]> Sun, 07 Feb 2016 09:41:39 +0000 grub (0.97-29ubuntu67) wily; urgency=medium * Port to modern Automake versions and use dh-autoreconf (closes: #724383). * Build with -fno-combine-stack-adjustments, since that optimisation pass confuses the stack games played by GRUB itself (closes: #768135). * Stop linking statically on amd64, which was a holdover from a long time ago when we couldn't just depend on biarch libraries (closes: #769349). -- Colin Watson <[email protected]> Mon, 05 Oct 2015 13:52:39 +0100 grub (0.97-29ubuntu66) precise; urgency=low <snip> There have been only two uploads of the grub package since the release of the oldest supported LTS (4 years ago). It stopped being a default bootloader longer ago than that. We should be honest with ourselves that we're never going to take the time to finish automated upgrade support for grub->grub2 and just drop the package. We should definitely fix grub-installer to not try to install a non-existent grub package from the archive, with or without preseed. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1611740 Title: remove grub, superseded by grub2 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub/+bug/1611740/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
