diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index a9d3ff4a9..5de461c6f 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ grub2 (1.96+20090613-1) experimental; urgency=low
   * New SVN snapshot.
     - Fix parsing of --output in grub-mkconfig. (Closes: #532956)
 
+  [ Felix Zielcke ]
   * Use ucfr --force in grub-ieee1275.postinst in case we're upgrading
     from previous version. It registered /etc/default/grub wrongly with
     package iee1275.
@@ -13,7 +14,11 @@ grub2 (1.96+20090613-1) experimental; urgency=low
   * Fix the svn-snapshot rule.
   * Update Standards version to 3.8.1. No changes needed.
 
- -- Felix Zielcke <fzielcke@z-51.de>  Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:58:07 +0200
+  [ Robert Millan ]
+  * legacy/upgrade-from-grub-legacy: Invoke grub-pc.postinst directly rather
+    than dpkg-reconfigure.  Since we pretend we're upgrading, it will DTRT.
+
+ -- Robert Millan <rmh.debian@aybabtu.com>  Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:06:27 +0200
 
 grub2 (1.96+20090611-1) experimental; urgency=low
 
diff --git a/debian/legacy/upgrade-from-grub-legacy b/debian/legacy/upgrade-from-grub-legacy
index a684ef666..575906dab 100644
--- a/debian/legacy/upgrade-from-grub-legacy
+++ b/debian/legacy/upgrade-from-grub-legacy
@@ -5,7 +5,8 @@ if test ! -f /boot/grub/core.img ; then
   grub-install --no-floppy --grub-setup=/bin/true "(hd0)" > /dev/null
 fi
 
-dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc
+# Pretend we're upgrading grub-pc.  This will make our postinst DTRT.
+/var/lib/dpkg/info/grub-pc.postinst configure dummy-version
 
 if test ! -f /boot/grub/grub.cfg ; then
   echo -e "\nCalling update-grub to generate grub.cfg\n" >&2