diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 9c39b47d0..55b84c578 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ grub2 (1.99-4) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
     grub2-common, and add grub2-common dependencies to grub-<platform>.
     This ensures that grub-<platform>-bin packages are coinstallable with
     grub-legacy, making it easier to use them as build-dependencies.
+  * Stop trying to install the non-existent grub-ofpathname(8) on sparc for
+    now.  It will exist in the next upstream snapshot.
 
  -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Wed, 18 May 2011 17:22:38 +0100
 
diff --git a/debian/grub-common.install.sparc.in b/debian/grub-common.install.sparc.in
index 849845c4d..73e459254 100644
--- a/debian/grub-common.install.sparc.in
+++ b/debian/grub-common.install.sparc.in
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 usr/sbin/grub-ofpathname
-usr/share/man/man8/grub-ofpathname.8
+# Restore this in the next upstream snapshot:
+#usr/share/man/man8/grub-ofpathname.8