Bug#919067: Please add a Recommends: on shim-signed

[Steve McIntyre]

On Sat, Jan 12, 2019 at 01:51:41PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
>On Sat, Jan 12, 2019 at 12:58:52PM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>> NB: Ubuntu doesn't have the depends/recommends here, so I can only
>> assume that some other method is used to ensure that shim-signed is
>> installed there. I asked Steve Langasek about this, but I've not had
>> an answer yet.
>
>I guess I can see the argument about having a recommendation here, since
>GRUB does make use of shim if it's installed.
>
>Ubuntu instead does this with a grub-installer change that explicitly
>installs both grub-efi-amd64-signed and shim-signed in the amd64/efi
>case.  What do you think about going with that instead, or maybe in
>addition to your approach?  Unpicking the patch I think it's something
>like this:

I'd possibly do both? grub-installer is one obvious place to make d-i
add things (and the patch there also looks fairly obvious, roughly
what I also considered myself), but that *only* works for d-i. If we
add the Recommends: for shim-signed, people will get a reasonable
package set by default if they just install grub-efi-amd64-signed.

Basically, I think encoding that in the normal package relationship
with the Recommends: is the right thing to do anyway.

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