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diffoscope: Installing diffoscope suggests installing systemd

Package: diffoscope; Maintainer for diffoscope is (unknown); Source for diffoscope is src:diffoscope.

Reported by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>

Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2025 13:38:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Done: Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk>

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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

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