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

Colin Watson cjwatson at debian.org
Sat Jan 12 15:09:57 GMT 2019


On Sat, Jan 12, 2019 at 02:20:49PM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> 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.

Fair enough; committing your patch.  Can I leave the grub-installer bit
to you?  We presumably need to decide whether to have it install
grub-efi-amd64-signed rather than grub-efi-amd64 by default, at the very
least.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at debian.org]



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