Package: syslinux Version: 2:3.82+dfsg-1 Severity: normal Changelog mentions dosfstools (2:3.71+dfsg-2) and mtools (2.10-1) were added to Recommends:. But now both listed as dependencies, for a reason not mentioned in changelog.
In nowadays world both are somewat relics. I understand that CD-ROMs sometimes contains boot-floppy images which gets created with mtools, and that USB sticks can be formatted with dosfstools, but neither are requiriment for, say, pxelinux or extlinux. I'd suggest moving the two back to Recommends:, as I did here when rebuilding the package (just to remove these deps). Thanks. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.1 APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (60, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-x86-64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages syslinux depends on: ii dosfstools 3.0.1-1 utilities for making and checking ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii mtools 3.9.11-1 Tools for manipulating MSDOS files ii syslinux-common 2:3.82+dfsg-1 Kernel loader which uses a FAT, ex syslinux recommends no packages. syslinux suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
