Bug#982313: grub-common: excessive dependency on mtools

[Sven Joachim]

Package: grub-common
Version: 2.04-14
Severity: normal

In response to #774910, grub-common gained a dependency on mtools, but I
do not think this makes much sense.  Creating a rescue disk with
grub-mkrescue also requires xorriso, so the dependency on mtools alone
is useless.

Personally I rely on third party rescue systems like GRML and do not use
grub-mkrescue at all, so I think mtools should be demoted to Suggests,
like xorriso.  Having both in Recommends might sense as well, but a hard
dependency looks excessive.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.10.14-nouveau (SMP w/2 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages grub-common depends on:
ii  gettext-base        0.21-4
ii  libc6               2.31-9
ii  libdevmapper1.02.1  2:1.02.175-2
ii  libefiboot1         37-6
ii  libefivar1          37-6
ii  libfreetype6        2.10.4+dfsg-1
ii  libfuse2            2.9.9-3
ii  liblzma5            5.2.5-1.0
ii  mtools              4.0.26-1

Versions of packages grub-common recommends:
pn  os-prober  <none>

Versions of packages grub-common suggests:
ii  console-setup  1.200
pn  desktop-base   <none>
pn  grub-emu       <none>
pn  multiboot-doc  <none>
pn  xorriso        <none>

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