extlinux dependent issue

Colin Watson cjwatson at ubuntu.com
Sat Apr 28 18:23:17 UTC 2018


On Sat, Apr 28, 2018 at 05:55:44PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> I'm surprised that "syslinux{,-common}" are in "main", see
> https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/syslinux{,-common} and "extlinux" is
> in "universe", see https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/extlinux, while
> all belongs to the same upstream source.

This is routine when only some of the binaries are actually used for
main-like purposes.  (syslinux is used for Ubuntu ISO images when
booting in BIOS mode.)

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]




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