Followup-For: Bug #589532 I forgot to comment on the devscrpts use pattern, which tries to be as flexible as possible: "install $ABC package to do $XYZ"
> The wishlist item is that perhaps grub-mkrescue should explicitly > advise installing the xorriso package if you don't have it. While the devscripts approach is fine for non urgent tasks devscripts provides, I believe a more safer approach should be taken when it comes to tasks of creating rescue images. There is a sutble scenario, a newbie might be trapped, when they are to be adviced by grub-mkrescue (while being in the middle of nowhere) to install xorriso and when no package repository could be reached for whatever trivial reasons. It is quite unlikely an experienced user to be trapped like that, but then again, they are very likely to find a decent way out. That being said, I'd go for putting an extra safety net to guarantee the successful operation completion on time, by splitting another "grub-rescue" binary package which would then depend on xorriso, to avoid subtle surprises. This way the intentions would better match the reality, in my opinion. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org