On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 06:21:16PM +0200, Ole Toft Jensen wrote: > On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 05:58:51PM +0200, thveillon.debian wrote: > > > Frank wrote: > > > On Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:27:09 +0200 > > >> "thveillon.debian" <thveillon.deb...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > >> Obviously grub-pc is not ready for primetime yet. On the update it > > >>> did on my machine, it failed to pick up the Ubuntu installation on > > >>> another > > >>> partition. How did it get migrated to Squeeze ? > > >>> > > >> The package "os-prober" is taking care of other OS detection, it's > > >> "recommended" but not automatically installed. > > > > > > Does that mean maintainers assume you only have one installation ? > > > > I can't read their minds, but it sure seems that installing os-prober as > > a dependency would do no harm to "single-booting" systems, and would > > save some trouble to "multi-booting" users. Maybe there's already a > > "whishlist" bug opened about it ? > > > The default behavior of aptitude and apt-get these days at least in sid > and testing is to install Recommends automatically, so the user must > have made a concious choice not to install os-prober or not to install > Recommends packages by default.
It looks like grub-common Recommends os-prober (>= 1.32), but the latest version in squeeze is 1.28. That's probably why I had to manually install os-prober in Debian squeeze. Brian
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