Bug#589532: grub-rescue-pc: still does not depend on xorriso, although it should

[Colin Watson]

severity 589532 wishlist
thanks

On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 04:30:57PM +0200, Pier Luigi Pau wrote:
> Package: grub-rescue-pc
> Version: 1.98+20100710-1
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable

No, it doesn't.  Downgrading.

> Greetings,
> 
> changelog for version 1.98+20100527-1 mentions:
> [cut]
>    * Suggest xorriso (>= 0.5.6.pl00) in grub-common, since grub-mkrescue now
>      needs it.  Depend on it in grub-rescue-pc.
> [cut]
> 
> However, grub-rescue-pc still does not depend on xorriso (or the
> dependency was removed by mistake - I haven't reviewed every version
> since), and it is possible to install the former without the latter
> being automatically installed, with the result that grub-mkrescue
> exits with an error message:
> 
> # grub-mkrescue -o 20100718a.iso

But grub-mkrescue is not in the grub-rescue-pc package.  grub-rescue-pc
simply ships the disk images, and you can definitely use it without
having xorriso.  grub-mkrescue is in grub-common (which I think is the
right place for it), and it would not be appropriate to have that depend
on xorriso since grub-common has many other uses that don't require
xorriso, but it suggests it.

The wishlist item is that perhaps grub-mkrescue should explicitly advise
installing the xorriso package if you don't have it.

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at debian.org]