diff -Nru grub2-2.02~beta2/debian/changelog grub2-2.02~beta2/debian/changelog
--- grub2-2.02~beta2/debian/changelog	2016-05-18 19:54:53.000000000 +0000
+++ grub2-2.02~beta2/debian/changelog	2016-05-20 16:35:11.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+grub2 (2.02~beta2-36ubuntu8) yakkety; urgency=medium
+
+  * debian/grub-common.init: Don't source /lib/init/vars.sh, we don't depend
+    on initscripts (and don't want to). There is no reason why we would not
+    use the LSB log_action_msg in non-verbose (default) mode, most other
+    packages use it unconditionally. (LP: #1584134)
+
+ -- Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com>  Fri, 20 May 2016 18:33:35 +0200
+
 grub2 (2.02~beta2-36ubuntu7) yakkety; urgency=medium
 
   * debian/postinst.in: replace setup_mok_validation with a call to
diff -Nru grub2-2.02~beta2/debian/grub-common.init grub2-2.02~beta2/debian/grub-common.init
--- grub2-2.02~beta2/debian/grub-common.init	2016-03-15 18:08:17.000000000 +0000
+++ grub2-2.02~beta2/debian/grub-common.init	2016-05-20 16:33:30.000000000 +0000
@@ -13,20 +13,17 @@
 
 which grub-editenv >/dev/null 2>&1 || exit 0
 
-# Load the VERBOSE setting and other rcS variables
-. /lib/init/vars.sh
-
 # Define LSB log_* functions.
 # Depend on lsb-base (>= 3.0-6) to ensure that this file is present.
 . /lib/lsb/init-functions
 
 case $1 in
     start|restart|force-reload)
-	[ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_action_msg "Recording successful boot for GRUB"
+	log_action_msg "Recording successful boot for GRUB"
 	[ -s /boot/grub/grubenv ] || rm -f /boot/grub/grubenv
 	mkdir -p /boot/grub
 	grub-editenv /boot/grub/grubenv unset recordfail
-	[ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_end_msg $?
+	log_end_msg $?
 	;;
     stop)
 	;;