Bug#584219: grub-common: recommend xorriso instead of suggesting it

Christoph Anton Mitterer calestyo at scientia.net
Wed Jun 2 11:06:55 UTC 2010


Package: grub-common
Version: 1.98+20100527-2
Severity: wishlist


Hi.

I'm not the expert in policy issues, but as grub-mkrescue _needs_
xorriso now, wouldn't it be better to at least recommend it?
Instead of just suggesting it.


Cheers,
Chris.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.33-heisenberg (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages grub-common depends on:
ii  base-files              5.7              Debian base system miscellaneous f
ii  dpkg                    1.15.7.2         Debian package management system
ii  gettext-base            0.18-1           GNU Internationalization utilities
ii  install-info            4.13a.dfsg.1-5   Manage installed documentation in 
ii  libc6                   2.11.1-2         Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libdevmapper1.02.1      2:1.02.47-1      The Linux Kernel Device Mapper use
ii  libfreetype6            2.3.11-1         FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages grub-common recommends:
pn  os-prober                     <none>     (no description available)

Versions of packages grub-common suggests:
pn  grub-emu                      <none>     (no description available)
pn  multiboot-doc                 <none>     (no description available)
pn  xorriso                       <none>     (no description available)

-- no debconf information





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