On Thu, 1970-01-01 at 00:49 +0000, Martin Stigge wrote: > That's easily resolved by installing the u-boot-tools package, but I would > have expected that do be a dependency in that case. I see that it's a > Suggests, but looks rather essential to me.
u-boot-tools is not a strict requirement for flash-kernel since it is only needed on certain platforms, as expressed by the Required-Packages field in the flash-kernel database. Debian Installer (via the flash-kernel-installer udeb) will process that field and install what is needed but if you install things by hand (or are using debootstrap etc) then you may need to do so manually. So, I don't think a hard depends would be the right answer. Perhaps given that many boards do need u-boot-tools an upgrade to Recommends might be in order, but my preference would be for f-k to learn to check (at runtime and/or installation time) that the set of Required-Packages are present and issue a warning/error, or at least to check that mkimage is present before actually using it and printing an appropriate warning otherwise. Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1427187349.1320.25.ca...@debian.org
