noninteractive upgrade with UCF_FORCE_CONFFNEW=1 fail with ucf conflict. Error: Only one of force_conffold and force_conffnew should be set Reproduce: - Modify sources.list for a new release. - Set ucf options export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive unset UCF_FORCE_CONFFOLD export UCF_FORCE_CONFFNEW=1 - noninteractive upgrade apt-get dist-upgrade ... Paramétrage de grub-pc (2.04-20) ... Error: Only one of force_conffold and force_conffnew should be set dpkg: erreur de traitement du paquet grub-pc (--configure) : installed grub-pc package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1 ... From ucf source : if [ "X$force_conffold" != "X" -a "X$force_conffnew" != "X" ]; then echo >&2 "Error: Only one of force_conffold and force_conffnew should"; echo >&2 " be set"; exit 1; fi From /etc/ucf.conf : # Please note that only one of conf_force_conffold and # conf_force_conffnew should be set. From grub-pc postinst script : # If the template configuration file hasn't changed, then no conflict is # possible. ucf can't figure this out for itself since we apply # debconf-based customisations on top of the template configuration # file. if [ -e /var/lib/grub/ucf/grub.previous ] && \ cmp -s /usr/share/grub/default/grub /var/lib/grub/ucf/grub.previous && \ [ -e /etc/default/grub ]; then ucf_env=UCF_FORCE_CONFFOLD=1 else ucf_env= fi env $ucf_env ucf --three-way --debconf-ok --sum-file=/usr/share/grub/default/grub.md5sum "$tmp_default_grub" /etc/default/grub cp -aZ /usr/share/grub/default/grub /var/lib/grub/ucf/grub.previous I suggest that grub postinst script should honor ucf options specified by commandline or in /etc/ucf.conf file. If UCF_FORCE_CONFFNEW is true or conf_force_conffnew=YES is set in /etc/ucf.conf then we should not try to define UCF_FORCE_CONFFOLD in postinst. grub-efi packages have the same behaviour : grub-efi-amd64 grub-efi-amd64-signed shim-signed I'm using Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) Kernel 5.10.70-1 (2021-09-30) x86_64 GNU/Linux.