Comment 3 for bug 2048953

Hi Julian, Mate,

I think adding python3-apt to the Depends of grub-common is a good solution. This issue is not urgent and is easily worked around, so waiting for the next upload is absolutely fine. Thank you!

As for how I got a system into this state... It never had python3-apt installed. I built the system by running 'debootstrap --variant=minbase noble noble http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy' and added exactly the packages I needed. I won't pretend that I've created a system that I can go to libera.chat #ubuntu and ask for help with, but as in Debian, the only packages that a binary control file can assume as installed are those in the 'Priority: Required' set. I think it is worth keeping that usecase available, and if you say that I need to do more work to keep it that way I'm fine with putting in the effort.