APPLIED: Natty SRU (V3): UBUNTU: [Config] Add grub-efi as a recommended bootloader for server and generic

[Tim Gardner]

On 06/23/2011 10:50 AM, Tim Gardner wrote:
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> <cjwatson> tgardner: grub-efi should definitely never be first
> <cjwatson> and "forces removal due to missing recommends" is nonsense
> an unsatisfied recommends should not force removing a package
> also, the real packages involved are grub-efi-amd64 and grub-efi-ia32 -
> grub-efi is a metapackage
> good grief, that apt-get output is incredibly weird
> <cjwatson> tgardner: in my book, that's an apt bug and you should give
> mvo a task for it - adding non-first grub-efi-amd64 | grub-efi-ia32
> Recommends won't hurt though
> <tgardner> cjwatson, well, should I reference the meta package, or the
> underlying package (since they are somewhat arch dependent, right?)
> <cjwatson> underlying
> it doesn't matter if you recommend something that's missing
> especially when it's one of several alternatives
> <tgardner> cjwatson, ok, can do
> <cjwatson> referring to the metapackage: consider the case where
> somebody has grub-efi-amd64 installed but not grub-efi
> <tgardner> makes sense
> <cjwatson> I still think it's not really your problem, but fixing apt's
> resolver in a stable release probably isn't happenng
>
> rtg
>

The changes were simple enough that I went ahead and applied this patch 
assuming ACKs from Leann and Andy.

rtg
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Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com