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

Josh Triplett josh at joshtriplett.org
Mon Feb 8 21:18:55 GMT 2021


Package: grub-common
Followup-For: Bug #982313
X-Debbugs-Cc: josh at joshtriplett.org

I agree; I think it'd be perfectly reasonable to have Recommends on both
mtools and xorriso, but a hard dependency suggests that grub can't work
without them. grub works fine without either mtools or xorriso
installed; one utility, grub-mkrescue, doesn't. There's plenty of
precedent in other packages, especially common packages that many people
will have installed, for using Recommends for packages needed by one of
many scripts within a package.



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