[Bug 1814930] Re: u-boot-tools missing binutils dependency

[Łukasz Zemczak]

+1 on that, let me sponsor it with a few tweaks to the changelog.

I guess we should try getting this change into Debian? I'm pretty sure
they might be having the same problem. They might have binutils
installed everywhere but since it's not essential there as well, I
suppose they should have the dep explicitly stated.

I'll also backport it to bionic once it migrates.

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Title:
  u-boot-tools missing binutils dependency

Status in u-boot package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Committed
Status in u-boot source package in Bionic:
  New
Status in u-boot source package in Cosmic:
  New

Bug description:
  The u-boot-tools package, specifically the mkknlimg script within it,
  relies upon several external utilities (specifically perl, grep, tr,
  and strings). Whilst most are provided by "essential" packages,
  strings is provided by binutils which is not. On a fresh install of
  the RPi3 beta image, an upgrade involved u-boot succeeds, but
  nonetheless prints a warning that strings cannot be found.

  Updated package available in
  https://launchpad.net/~waveform/+archive/ubuntu/pkg

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