Bug#633746: grub-pc should suggest or recommend xorriso

[Jay Berkenbilt]

Colin Watson <cjwatson at debian.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 07:48:56AM -0400, Jay Berkenbilt wrote:
>> Since grub-pc (specifically, grub-mkrescue) uses xorriso to create the
>> rescue image, it would be helpful of grub-pc at least Suggests and
>> probably Recommends xorriso.  This obviously doesn't have anything to do
>> with my configuration, but I leave what reportbug added anyway.
>
> grub-mkrescue is in the grub-common package, which already suggests
> xorriso as of version 1.98+20100527-1:
>
>   * Suggest xorriso (>= 0.5.6.pl00) in grub-common, since grub-mkrescue now
>     needs it.  Depend on it in grub-rescue-pc.
>
> Isn't this enough?

Yeah, that's probably fine.  grub-mkrescue is pretty much useless
without xorriso, but it's completely reasonable to install grub-common
without having any intention of using grub-mkrescue, so Suggests is
probably more appropriate than Recommends, particularly if pre-made
images are already available in the grub-rescue-pc package.

I have no objection to this issue being closed.

-- 
Jay Berkenbilt <qjb at debian.org>