Bug#584415: grub-common: grub-mkimage has gotten rid of its (supposedly sane) default

[Didier Raboud]

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

Hi, 

while hunting down http://bugs.debian.org/584371 , it appears that from
version 1.98+20100527, grub-mkimage requires a -O, --format option to be set,
otherwise it throws an unclear "Target not specified".

IMHO there are two things:

i) the error message is misleading (_Target_ not specified, where the --help
speaks about _format_)
ii) it used to use a (supposedly sane) default and now it requires -O

Thanks for considering, 

Cheers, 

OdyX

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (750, 'unstable'), (700, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (700, 'testing'), (90, 'experimental'), (50, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (50, 'experimental'), (50, 'unstable'), (50, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_CH.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_CH.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:
ii  os-prober                     1.38       utility to detect other OSes on a 

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)

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