Bug#933299: isohybrid.pl should not be architecture dependent

2019-07-29 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > I'll also look into whether we need both the perl > script and the binary of "isohybrid" If it is for functionality, then not. If it is about portability, then only if isohybrid.c stays restricted to the architectures which could boot via isolinux.bin. If it is about backward compatibili

Bug#933299: isohybrid.pl should not be architecture dependent

2019-07-28 Thread Lukas Schwaighofer
Hi Timothy, thanks for reporting. The whole file organization of syslinux (both which file is in which package, as well as the location of files) needs improvement. This is something I intend to work on during the bullseye cycle. As part of that, I'll also look into whether we need both the per

Bug#933299: isohybrid.pl should not be architecture dependent

2019-07-28 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, shouldn't the package which offers isohybrid.pl depend on perl ? Note that isohybrid.pl prepares an ISOLINUX ISO only for BIOS booting. Not for EFI, as does isohybrid from the C source. isohybrid from isohybrid.c would have to be in a package with Architecture: any to produce binary executa

Bug#933299: isohybrid.pl should not be architecture dependent

2019-07-28 Thread Timothy Pearson
Package: syslinux-utils Version: 3:6.04~git20190206.bf6db5b4+dfsg1-1 There are two versions of the hybrid ISO utility, a native C implementation and a Perl version. Neither of these should be in the architecture-dependent (x86-only) syslinux-utils package, but especially the Perl version of the