[Pkg-libburnia-devel] libburn (1.0.6.pl00-2)

[Thomas Schmitt]

Hi,

> grub-common only Suggests: xorriso (>= 0.5.6.pl00), which 
> is the weakest dependency possible

Debian bug report 589532 complained about this but was dismissed.

Colin Watson:
> grub-mkrescue is in grub-common (which I think is the
> right place for it), and it would not be appropriate to have that depend
> on xorriso since grub-common has many other uses that don't require
> xorriso, but it suggests it.

Same with Ubuntu bug 608648.


The (inofficial ?) GRUB tutorials mention workarounds like this:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1195275
> If an error message "/usr/bin/grub-mkrescue: 324: xorriso: not found",
> install the xorriso package and rerun the command.


Have a nice day :)

Thomas