severity 589532 wishlist thanks On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 04:30:57PM +0200, Pier Luigi Pau wrote: > Package: grub-rescue-pc > Version: 1.98+20100710-1 > Severity: grave > Justification: renders package unusable
No, it doesn't. Downgrading. > Greetings, > > changelog for version 1.98+20100527-1 mentions: > [cut] > * Suggest xorriso (>= 0.5.6.pl00) in grub-common, since grub-mkrescue now > needs it. Depend on it in grub-rescue-pc. > [cut] > > However, grub-rescue-pc still does not depend on xorriso (or the > dependency was removed by mistake - I haven't reviewed every version > since), and it is possible to install the former without the latter > being automatically installed, with the result that grub-mkrescue > exits with an error message: > > # grub-mkrescue -o 20100718a.iso But grub-mkrescue is not in the grub-rescue-pc package. grub-rescue-pc simply ships the disk images, and you can definitely use it without having xorriso. 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. The wishlist item is that perhaps grub-mkrescue should explicitly advise installing the xorriso package if you don't have it. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org