grub-mkrescue is missing dependency on xorriso

[Scott Moser]

Binary package hint: grub2

$ grub-mkrescue --output=myrescue.iso
Enabling BIOS support ...
/usr/bin/grub-mkrescue: 323: xorriso: not found

$ sudo apt-get install xorriso
...
$ grub-mkrescue --output=myrescue.iso
Enabling BIOS support ...
xorriso 0.5.6 : RockRidge filesystem manipulator, libburnia project.

$ ls -l myrescue.iso
-rw------- 1 ubuntu ubuntu 1835008 2010-07-22 10:05 myrescue.iso

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: grub-common 1.98+20100720-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: User Name 2.6.32-305.9-ec2 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-305-ec2 x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Jul 22 09:58:24 2010
Ec2AMI: ami-a4dc37cd
Ec2AMIManifest: ubuntu-images-testing-us/ubuntu-maverick-daily-amd64-server-20100722.manifest.xml
Ec2AvailabilityZone: us-east-1b
Ec2InstanceType: m1.large
Ec2Kernel: aki-427d952b
Ec2Ramdisk: unavailable
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: grub2

[Scott Moser (smoser)]

I just looked, this is mentioned as a suggests, but not a depends, and grub-mkrescue is not going to function without it.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

I don't plan to upgrade this to a depends, sorry; it's too heavyweight
for grub-common. See http://bugs.debian.org/589532 for background, and
compare the approach taken by devscripts.

 status wontfix

[dfong63 (dfong)]

i ran into this issue just now. if you don't want to add a dependency, then how about a more direct error message from grub-mkrescue, saying that this particular utility requires that xorriso be installed?

[cab404 (c4b4)]

still relevant. that's amazing.