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| Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote Re: [Bug 1915077] Re: genisoimage may be going away | #2 |
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On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 02:21:28PM -0000, James Falcon wrote:
> That said, cloud-image-utils is in main[2] and therefore all of its
> dependencies also need to be in main, so we are not free to choose our
> own replacement unconstrained. We certainly won't be alone in needing
> to choose a replacement, `apt rdepends genisoimage` indicates that,
> amongst others, ubuntu-desktop and livecd-rootfs (which is the package
> used to build not only live CD root filesystems but also ~every other
> Ubuntu image). IMO, it's not really our place to determine the correct
> replacement here: this is a tool used across different parts of Ubuntu,
> so Foundations are likely better placed than we.
We use xorriso in place of genisoimage for Ubuntu ISO generation. I'm
actually not sure why genisoimage is a dependency of livecd-rootfs, since I
don't believe we have any ISOs as output of livecd-rootfs itself.
The ubuntu-meta dependency is being dropped; the seed change has already
been merged, and a new ubuntu-desktop is waiting in hirsute-proposed.
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