On Thu 02 Dec 2021 at 22:01:29 (+0000), Joe wrote: > On Thu, 2 Dec 2021 14:29:31 -0600 David Wright wrote: > > > > This thread seems to have gone down a rabbit-hole. > > > > $ aptitude why os-prober > > i grub-common Recommends os-prober (>= 1.33) > > $ > > > > It has stretched the minds of people here to work out how to > > make the d-i /avoid/ installing Recommends, so I can't see > > why this would suddenly happen to a casual newcomer. > > > To be fair, it's four or five weeks since I last used an installer, and > I certainly got os-prober then. But a few days ago, os-prober was > disabled in that very installation after an upgrade. I can therefore > easily believe that it could now be omitted on installation. Someone > important considers it unnecessary. > > Again, there was a changelog mentioning this and saying how to work > around it, but I feel that a Debian upgrade should not simply disable a > piece of necessary and regularly-used software without at least asking > the user first.
I guess this is why newcomer's don't run sid: it bites occasionally. This is an upstream change in Grib, isn't it, and mentioned in news.Debian. Perhaps you could submit a bug to have it brought to admins attention through debconf (is it?—the one that displays when you install, and sends the same message as an email to root). Cheers, David.
