[Bug 1527376] Re: ubuntu-minimal and grub-ieee1275 depends powerpc-utils other than powerpc-ibm-utils

As of xenial, "powerpc-utils" is a metapackage that pulls in the correct platform deps (pmac-utils and powerpc-ibm-utils on big-endian, just powerpc-ibm-utils on little-endian) ** Changed in: powerpc-utils (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification

[Bug 1527376] Re: ubuntu-minimal and grub-ieee1275 depends powerpc-utils other than powerpc-ibm-utils

minimal depends on both, actually, and grub has a valid reason for using powerpc-utils' version of ofpath, IIRC, though we can and should fix that and move the dependency over to using ppc-ibm-utils instead, even on Mac platforms. Then we'd ship both on powerpc/ppc64, and only the ibm utils on

Re: [Bug 1527376] Re: ubuntu-minimal and grub-ieee1275 depends powerpc-utils other than powerpc-ibm-utils

HI Steve, Correct. I would personally think that keeping only powerpc-ibm-utils is the better. Even better to rename it to powerpc-utils, after it is the only one. On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 7:03 PM, Steve Langasek wrote: > The code we want to pull in is definitely

[Bug 1527376] Re: ubuntu-minimal and grub-ieee1275 depends powerpc-utils other than powerpc-ibm-utils

The code we want to pull in is definitely the code shipped under the powerpc-ibm-utils package name. But there's also been discussion of taking over the powerpc-utils package name, so we really should be making one change or the other. ** Changed in: powerpc-utils (Ubuntu) Status: New =>