[Bug 1800598] [NEW] ubiquity recommends grub-efi, should recommend grub-efi-amd64 or grub-efi-ia32 instead

[Michael Hudson-Doyle]

Public bug reported:

If you attempt a OEM install under UEFI, oem-config will fail to be
installed, because installing oem-config installs ubiquity which
recommends "grub-pc | grub | grub-efi". Back in the day, grub-efi would
have been installed but it seems that this has now split into grub-efi-
amd64 and grub-efi-ia32, so none of these packages are installed. So apt
tries to install grub-pc, which conflicts with grub-efi-amd64, that is
scheduled for removal, but package removals are not permitted at this
step of the installer and so oem-config-debconf is not actually
installed (silently, which adds some bonus confusion).

I guess you could argue this is an apt bug (if it just installed the
transitional grub-efi instead...) but well it seems it's probably easy
enough to fix in ubiquity by having it recommend grub-efi-amd64 or grub-
efi-ia32 by arch instead.

** Affects: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  ubiquity recommends grub-efi, should recommend grub-efi-amd64 or grub-
  efi-ia32 instead

Status in ubiquity package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  If you attempt a OEM install under UEFI, oem-config will fail to be
  installed, because installing oem-config installs ubiquity which
  recommends "grub-pc | grub | grub-efi". Back in the day, grub-efi
  would have been installed but it seems that this has now split into
  grub-efi-amd64 and grub-efi-ia32, so none of these packages are
  installed. So apt tries to install grub-pc, which conflicts with grub-
  efi-amd64, that is scheduled for removal, but package removals are not
  permitted at this step of the installer and so oem-config-debconf is
  not actually installed (silently, which adds some bonus confusion).

  I guess you could argue this is an apt bug (if it just installed the
  transitional grub-efi instead...) but well it seems it's probably easy
  enough to fix in ubiquity by having it recommend grub-efi-amd64 or
  grub-efi-ia32 by arch instead.

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