On Thu, 2 Dec 2021 14:29:31 -0600 David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote:
> > This thread seems to have gone down a rabbit-hole. > > $ aptitude why os-prober > i grub-common Recommends os-prober (>= 1.33) > $ > > It has stretched the minds of people here to work out how to > make the d-i /avoid/ installing Recommends, so I can't see > why this would suddenly happen to a casual newcomer. > To be fair, it's four or five weeks since I last used an installer, and I certainly got os-prober then. But a few days ago, os-prober was disabled in that very installation after an upgrade. I can therefore easily believe that it could now be omitted on installation. Someone important considers it unnecessary. Again, there was a changelog mentioning this and saying how to work around it, but I feel that a Debian upgrade should not simply disable a piece of necessary and regularly-used software without at least asking the user first. -- Joe
