On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 7:02 PM, LaMont Jones <lam...@debian.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 03:26:59PM +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote:
> > the Knot DNS 1.3.0 introduced knot-dnsutils and knot-host package(s),
> > so it would be nice if the two can coexist nicely in the system.
> > knot-dnsutils and knot-host provide kdig, knsupdate and khost binaries
> > that aim to be 1:1 compatible (with some backwards compatible
> > improvements) with Bind 9 commands.
> >
> > I propose:
> > 1. Rename dnsutils to bind9-dnsutils
> > 2. split obsolete nslookup to separate package[*]
> > 3. Create dummy dnsutils package
> > 4. Add an alternative mechanisms to bind9-dnsutils and bind9-host
> > 5. Add an alternative mechanisms to knot-dnsutils and knot-host
>
> > Would that work for you?
>
> Seems reasonable. Would it be sufficent for bind9-dnsutils to
> provide/conflict/replace dnsutils? or what were you thinking of there?
>
I was thinking of renaming the binaries to bind9-{util} and use
update-alternatives to provide {util}, same for knot-dnsutils, e.g. have
k{util} and use update-alternatives to provide {util}.
But P/C/R: dnsutils would suit me as well.
> > * - I would even suggest to drop nslookup since it has been obsoleted
> > long time ago.
>
> I'm inclined to drop it completely, and then readd it under duress as
> its own package, if someone notices.
>
Sounds reasonable, nslookup has to die :).
O.
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Ondřej Surý <ond...@sury.org>
