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Package: grub-ipxe
Severity: important
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
Since recent versions, ipxe no longer Recommends grub-ipxe. This breaks the
dependency between both packages.
Anyhow, it would make more sense for grub-ipxe to Depends on ipxe, than for
ipxe to Recommends grub-ipxe.
Cheers!
Martin-Éric
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ke 22.7.2026 klo 11.59 Miao Wang ([email protected]) kirjoitti:
> > 2026年7月22日 16:52，Martin-Éric Racine <[email protected]> 写道：
> >
> > ke 22.7.2026 klo 11.45 Miao Wang ([email protected]) kirjoitti:
> >>> 2026年7月22日 16:38，Martin-Éric Racine <[email protected]> 写道：
> >>>
> >>> ke 22.7.2026 klo 11.26 Miao Wang ([email protected]) kirjoitti:
> >>>>> 2026年7月22日 15:12，Martin-Éric Racine <[email protected]> 写道：
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Package: grub-ipxe
> >>>>> Severity: important
> >>>>> X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Since recent versions, ipxe no longer Recommends grub-ipxe. This breaks
> >>>>> the dependency between both packages.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Anyhow, it would make more sense for grub-ipxe to Depends on ipxe, than
> >>>>> for ipxe to Recommends grub-ipxe.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Cheers!
> >>>>> Martin-Éric
> >>>>
> >>>> Due to the reason which I have described in [1], this change is
> >>>> intentional and
> >>>> I do not believe there is any dependency between ipxe and grub-ipxe.
> >>>> Either
> >>>> package works well without the other.
> >>>
> >>> Please read the report carefully. This is a different issue: bin:ipxe
> >>> works fine for providing PXE blobs alone, but grub-ipxe doesn't work
> >>> without Depends bin:ipxe.
> >>
> >> I don't think I have misinterpreted your bug. As I said before, there is no
> >> relationship between both packages. If you do not believe that grub-ipxe
> >> behaves as expected without ipxe, you may further describe what the
> >> symptom is.
> >
> > Wait... so now bin:grub-ipxe ships its own PXE blob (like bin:ipxe
> > previously did), while bin:ipxe instead ships PXE blobs for
> > architectures other than i386/amd64 but without any bootloader
> > support, correct?
>
> Yes, you are correct about it. bin:grub-ipxe ships iPXE bootloader
> for the current architecture. E.g. if you install grub-ipxe:amd64,
> it will install ipxe.efi for x86-64 UEFI into /boot. If you install
> grub-ipxe:arm64, it will install ipxe.efi for aarch64 UEFI into /boot.
> As a result, grub-ipxe becomes arch-dependent because it contains
> different content on different architectures.
The architecture issue is irrelevant. You could have closed the
previous bug a long time ago by pointing out that, instead of
reverting the package split, you solved the problem by having
bin:grub-ipxe ship PXE blobs again, instead of having bin:ipxe
Recommends bin:grub-ipxe like it initially did when you took over
maintenance. Basically, both bugs are solved (albeit in an unexpected
yet very elegant way that produces a minimalistic iPXE package for
GRUB-enabled architectures), but you failed to say so. Anyhow, we're
good to go. Closing.
Martin-Éric
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