[Bug 487456] Re: Missing dependency to bash

2009-12-07 Thread Ari Hyttinen
First a disclaimer: even if below may sound like complaining, I do very much appreciate the work of core Ubuntu and Debian developers (as well as the whole community and upstream software developers), and I don't think they have any "obligation" to do things they don't think important or the right

[Bug 487456] Re: Missing dependency to bash

2009-12-07 Thread Colin Watson
bash is Essential: yes, and therefore grub is actually *forbidden* from depending on it. (A pre-depends would be even more wrong.) You're free to change this as you choose for embedded distributions, but as it stands this is not a bug in the grub2 packages. If the Debian grub2 folks want to use ba

[Bug 487456] Re: Missing dependency to bash

2009-11-24 Thread Robert Millan
That's nothing. In fact, to run grub-mkconfig you need *python* $ grep -H lsb_release /etc/default/grub /etc/default/grub:GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian` And all that just to do a trivial "echo Distroname" job. I suggest you focus on replacing python code first