On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 10:18:17PM -0000, Steve Langasek wrote: > 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.
OK, that's clearly what we should be moving to; thanks! > 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. It's used by the CPC Vagrant build scripts to... generate a cloud-init seed ISO. (= (Who could have introduced that? *innocent whistling*) > The ubuntu-meta dependency is being dropped; the seed change has already > been merged, and a new ubuntu-desktop is waiting in hirsute-proposed. OK, cool; are we looking to drop it (from main) this cycle? (i.e. Do we need to work on this ~now?) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1915077 Title: genisoimage may be going away To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/cloud-init/+bug/1915077/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
