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regarding grub-common: recommend xorriso instead of suggesting it
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Package: grub-common
Version: 1.98+20100527-2
Severity: wishlist
Hi.
I'm not the expert in policy issues, but as grub-mkrescue _needs_
xorriso now, wouldn't it be better to at least recommend it?
Instead of just suggesting it.
Cheers,
Chris.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.33-heisenberg (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages grub-common depends on:
ii base-files 5.7 Debian base system miscellaneous f
ii dpkg 1.15.7.2 Debian package management system
ii gettext-base 0.18-1 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii install-info 4.13a.dfsg.1-5 Manage installed documentation in
ii libc6 2.11.1-2 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libdevmapper1.02.1 2:1.02.47-1 The Linux Kernel Device Mapper use
ii libfreetype6 2.3.11-1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages grub-common recommends:
pn os-prober <none> (no description available)
Versions of packages grub-common suggests:
pn grub-emu <none> (no description available)
pn multiboot-doc <none> (no description available)
pn xorriso <none> (no description available)
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tags 584219 wontfix
thanks
On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 01:06:55PM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> I'm not the expert in policy issues, but as grub-mkrescue _needs_
> xorriso now, wouldn't it be better to at least recommend it?
> Instead of just suggesting it.
`Recommends'
This declares a strong, but not absolute, dependency.
The `Recommends' field should list packages that would be found
together with this one in all but unusual installations.
`Suggests'
This is used to declare that one package may be more useful with
one or more others. Using this field tells the packaging system
and the user that the listed packages are related to this one and
can perhaps enhance its usefulness, but that installing this one
without them is perfectly reasonable.
grub-mkrescue is quite a minor part of the functionality of grub-common.
grub-common is required to install any GRUB (Legacy or 2) boot loader
package at all. By comparison, generating rescue images is quite a rare
activity. Thus I need to balance the question of making it easier to
use grub-mkrescue out of the box versus pulling in a good half-megabyte
worth of dependencies (closer to one-and-a-half megabytes installed) for
everyone.
This is the sort of case where it's the maintainer's judgement call on
whether to use Recommends or Suggests. In this case, I've considered
your suggestion to change it, but I think my judgement still leans
towards it being better to use Suggests.
Thanks,
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Colin Watson [[email protected]]
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