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Re: apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed

From David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed
Date 2021-06-23 16:50 +0200
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Please post as text, not *just* html.

On Wed 23 Jun 2021 at 15:55:04 (+0200), Markus wrote:
> <html>
>   <head>
> 
>     <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
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>     Hi, just before and also after today's "apt full-upgrade" apt tells
>     me that:<br>
>     <br>
>     <pre><code>The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required</code>:
> efibootmgr grub-efi-amd64-bin grub-efi-amd64-signed grub2-common
> libappindicator3-1 libcanberra-gtk3-0 libcanberra-gtk3-module
> libclutter-gtk-1.0-0 libdbusmenu-glib4 libdbusmenu-gtk3-4 libindicator3-7
> libupsclient4 linux-headers-5.10.0-0.bpo.4-amd64
> linux-headers-5.10.0-0.bpo.4-common linux-image-5.10.0-0.bpo.4-amd64
> linux-kbuild-4.19 linux-kbuild-5.9 mokutil shim-helpers-amd64-signed
> shim-signed-common
> shim-unsigned
> 
> </pre>
>     I don't have a good feeling when I see that it allows me to remove <br>
>     "efibootmgr grub-efi-amd64-bin grub-efi-amd64-signed grub2-common"
>     <br>
>     <br>
>     <br>
>     What is wrong here? I am on Buster and used kernel
>     5.10.0-0.bpo.5-amd64. With today's
>     <br>
>     full-upgrade 5.10.0-0.bpo.7-amd64 came in.

Has grub-efi-amd64 been accidentally removed? AIUI that's the package
which depends on having the packages to boot your machine.

Cheers,
David.

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Re: apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-06-23 16:50 +0200
  Re: apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed Markus <debianer@gmx.de> - 2021-06-23 17:10 +0200
    Re: apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-06-23 18:10 +0200
      Re: apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed Markus <debianer@gmx.de> - 2021-06-24 08:50 +0200
        Re: apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-06-24 13:20 +0200
          Re: apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed Markus <debianer@gmx.de> - 2021-06-24 17:10 +0200
            Re: apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-06-24 17:20 +0200
              Re: apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed Markus <debianer@gmx.de> - 2021-06-24 18:50 +0200
                Re: apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-06-24 19:00 +0200
                Re: apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed Markus <debianer@gmx.de> - 2021-07-07 08:30 +0200
                Re: apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-07-07 09:30 +0200
                Re: apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed Markus <debianer@gmx.de> - 2021-07-07 12:30 +0200
                Re: apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2021-07-07 14:30 +0200
                Re: apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2021-07-07 14:40 +0200
                Re: apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2021-07-07 21:30 +0200
                Re: apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed Markus <debianer@gmx.de> - 2021-07-08 10:30 +0200
                Re: apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2021-07-08 12:00 +0200
                Re: apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2021-07-08 12:20 +0200
                Re: apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-07-07 13:30 +0200
            Re: apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-07-08 16:50 +0200
        Re: apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-06-24 16:10 +0200
          Re: apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2021-06-24 16:10 +0200
          Re: apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed Markus <debianer@gmx.de> - 2021-06-24 17:00 +0200

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