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

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On 2021-07-07 at 08:19, Anssi Saari wrote:

> Markus <debianer@gmx.de> writes:
> 
>> So it seems that apt-listbugs has done the pinning. Right?
> 
> Right and while I've never used apt-listbugs, it should've asked you
>  what to do when you updated your system? Since the issue concerns 
> ARM based systems only, binning was not the correct choice.
> 
> As the bug is fixed now

Is it?

I saw two bugs listed under the 30000 apt-listbugs pins: #984520 and
#990082.

#990082 is for shim-signed, and it does seem to be closed now, but if
I'm reading the discussion correctly that's not the package we're
concerned with.

$984520 is for grub-efi-amd64, which I think is the package we're
concerned with, and as far as I can tell it's still open.

> it seems to me apt-listbugs should clean this up by itself, it's
> supposed to run periodically. I guess you could run it manually too.

If I'm not mistaken, the cleanup will only happen when the appropriate
package version is available in the repositories configured as visible
in /etc/apt/sources.list*.

As far as I can see at a quick glance, the package versions with the fix
are not in testing; they're only in unstable and in buster-security. If
Markus is not tracking either of those repos, then the fixed version
won't show as available yet, so the pin won't be automatically removed.


(I learned something today; I thought the check for removing the pin was
done at apt-listbugs invocation time, not on a daily cron job. In
hindsight it makes sense, since apt-listbugs can be invoked manually and
the invoking user probably wouldn't have write access to modify
/etc/apt/preferences/ contents, but I wasn't expecting it.)

-- 
   The Wanderer

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all
progress depends on the unreasonable man.         -- George Bernard Shaw

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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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