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

[Steve McIntyre]

On Sat, Jan 12, 2019 at 03:09:57PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
>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.

Sure, no problem. :-)

Thanks for working through this!

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