Subject: bug#877: [devuan-dev] bug#877: diffoscope: Installing diffoscope suggests installing systemd

From: Simon Richter <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2025 17:35:01 +0900

Hi,

On 2/17/25 19:37, Mark Hindley wrote:

>> 	systemd-boot-efi systemd-repart systemd-ukify

> A quick look indicated diffoscope Recommends systemd-ukify which then Recommends
> the other 2.

That's probably so diffoscope can dissect UKI images in order to compare 
their contents. For some reason the secure boot signing tools are in the 
"systemd-repart" package, that might be required for signature checks as 
well.

The bootloader, obviously, is not required for diffoscope to work.

    Simon