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

George Danchev danchev at spnet.net
Tue Jun 14 12:06:36 UTC 2011


On Tuesday, June 14, 2011 10:25:43 AM Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> 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.

I followed up with these comments:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=589532#17
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=589532#22

> 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
> 
> 
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