Bug#277937: grub in Suggests:, has non-existant grubconf package.
Y Giridhar Appaji Nag
Y Giridhar Appaji Nag <debian@appaji.net>, 277937@bugs.debian.org
Sat, 23 Oct 2004 21:07:46 +0530
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Package: grub
Version: 0.95+cvs20040624-10
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
grubconf is Suggests:ed in grub, but the grubconf doesn't exist in sarge
(yet).
$ apt-cache show grub
[snip]
Version: 0.95+cvs20040624-10
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4), libncurses5 (>= 5.4-1)
Suggests: grub-doc, grubconf
Filename: pool/main/g/grub/grub_0.95+cvs20040624-10_i386.deb
Size: 350418
MD5sum: e38231da48ffbbf9eab327045ceb71cf
[snip]
$ apt-cache search grubconf
$ apt-cache show grubconf
$ sudo apt-get install grubconf
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Package grubconf is not available, but is referred to by another
package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package grubconf has no installation candidate
>From the packages page, I found that grubconf is in unstable. I am not
sure, but would it be moved from unstable to testing sometime? Filing
the bug nevertheless.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US
Versions of packages grub depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libncurses5 5.4-4 Shared libraries for terminal hand
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--- /home/appaji/grub-0.95+cvs20040624/debian/control 2004-10-23 20:59:29.000000000 +0530
+++ control 2004-10-23 21:00:49.000000000 +0530
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
Package: grub
Architecture: darwin-i386 freebsd-i386 hurd-i386 kfreebsd-i386 knetbsd-i386 i386 netbsd-i386 openbsd-i386 amd64
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}
-Suggests: grub-doc, grubconf
+Suggests: grub-doc
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader
GRUB is a GPLed bootloader intended to unify bootloading across x86
operating systems. In addition to loading the Linux kernel,
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