Bug#872097: grub: fdisk dependency needed

Sven Joachim svenjoac at gmx.de
Thu Feb 15 17:34:53 UTC 2018


Control: reassign -1 grub-legacy 0.97-72

On 2017-08-14 15:37 +0200, andreas at fatal.se wrote:

> Source: grub
> Version: 0.97-72
> Severity: important
> User: util-linux at packages.debian.org
> Usertags: fdisk-dependency
>
> Hello,
>
> As recently announced on debian-devel-announce[1] packages who need
> any of sfdisk, cfdisk or fdisk will need to add a dependency on the
> new fdisk package.
>
> Your package grub showed up on codesearch.debian.net and a very quick
> analysis suggested you might want to add a dependency (and/or
> build-dependency if you use it at build-time, eg. tests).
>
> Please use the backwards-compatible way of specifying the dependency
> as suggested in the debian-devel-announce mail:
>
> fdisk | util-linux (<< 2.29.2-3~)
>
> (and if only for tests you might want to add the build profile
> <!nocheck>)
>
> Please reassign this bug report to the binary package shipping the
> affected part of your source.

I'm doing this hereby.  The mkbimage script runs sfdisk, otherwise I
found fdisk references only in comments.

Cheers,
       Sven



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