Comment 6 for bug 428570

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote : Re: [Bug 428570] Re: Default grub2 configuration won't boot through to default OS

On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 02:32:00AM -0000, Patrick Goetz wrote:
> Yes, I understand, that's the point. If grub2 depends on grub-pc,
> shouldn't this have updated as well when I updated grub2?

It's an unversioned dependency, so the old version satisfies the
dependency just as well and therefore apt doesn't bother to upgrade it.
(This may be an error in how the dependency is declared, but it's how it
is right now.)

> I'm presuming the postinst script ran grub-update for me?

update-grub is always run, yes.

> In any case, the problem seems to be resolved now -- maybe the issue was
> nothing more than grub-update wasn't getting run on grub2 update.

Could be, though that code hasn't changed in a while ...