Bug#564167: grub-common: grub.info doesn't belong here

[Ian Zimmerman]

Package: grub-common
Version: 1.98~20100101-1
Severity: minor


shipping the grub.info (which documents -- weakly -- the 1.x version
of grub) in this package can be extremely confusing because
grub-legacy (i.e. grub 0.x) depends on grub-common.  Moreover,
grub-legacy-doc doesn't register *its* info file with install-info,
unlike grub-common.  Thus, when you install grub-legacy and
grub-legacy-doc with apt, you'll actually see the grub 1.x document
in the info directory when you run the info command or do C-h i in
emacs.

Given the nature of grub, this could mislead someone into making their
system unbootable.

Maybe the info file should be in its own package grub-doc-info or something.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32.3-core2-i (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages grub-common depends on:
ii  base-files             5.0.0             Debian base system miscellaneous f
ii  dpkg                   1.15.5.5          Debian package management system
ii  gettext-base           0.17-8            GNU Internationalization utilities
ii  install-info           4.13a.dfsg.1-5    Manage installed documentation in 
ii  libc6                  2.10.2-2          GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libfreetype6           2.3.11-1          FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-15 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages grub-common recommends:
pn  os-prober                     <none>     (no description available)

Versions of packages grub-common suggests:
pn  grub-emu                      <none>     (no description available)
pn  multiboot-doc                 <none>     (no description available)

-- no debconf information