Comment 16 for bug 1876139

On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 2:50 PM Steve Langasek <email address hidden>
wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 05:27:49PM -0000, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote:
> > Looking at seeds, it seems like maybe "cloud-image" should have fdisk
> > seeded in both focal & groovy.
>
> I think this belongs in the server seed, not just cloud-image.

From the changelog you dropped fdisk to avoid having it in chroots and
squashfs'.
Adding it to the seed would negate that without then removing it again from
those
images, which feels fragile.

I read the removal of fdisk as direction for the OS generally and will note
the chroots
and squashfs still carry gdisk/sgdisk (Although now I can't figure out how
that gets into
the image). But why wouldn't we leave it out of the seeds and if the user
needs fdisk
in addition to gdisk then they must now explicitly install it?

> But given that fdisk is no longer part of the essential set, packages that
> invoke it should also be fixed to declare a dependency on it.
>

+1 on packages explicitly declaring a dependency. Is this being worked for
cloud-utils?