"Kevin B McCarty ([EMAIL PROTECTED])" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi Roger, Hi, > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Saturday, August 12, 2006 9:34 am > Subject: Bug#382678: pawserv: Dependency on netkit-inetd | xinetd must be > removed > To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> This current depends: >> >> Depends: ..., netbase (>= 4.08), ..., netkit-inetd | xinetd >> >> needs updating. The netkit-inetd | xinetd dependency is unnecessary, >> because netbase provides an inetd dependency. Also, netkit-inetd is >> likely going to be removed shortly, so the dependency needs removing. > > Pawserv does require an inetd server to run, so I'm a little reluctant > to remove the inetd dependency entirely (as opposed to changing it > to something like openbsd-inetd | netkit-inetd | xinetd) and rely only on > the netbase -> inetd indirect dependency. Can I presume netbase will > depend upon some inetd server through at least the release of Etch? Yes. In Etch, netbase (which is part of base) will continue to provide an inetd dependency. Simply depending on netbase will be sufficient: an inetd is guaranteed to be present. Depending on any particular set of inetds is incorrect, because your package might become uninstallable when the default inetd changes (if the default happens to conflict with the ones in your list, for example). And even if you do choose to continue to have a list of inetds, netkit-inetd needs removing: it will be removed from the unstable (and etch) when the netbase maintainer fixes #382687. After etch (you may have already seen this discussion on debian-devel) it is likely inetd will become a virtual package and removed from the netbase depends, at which point there will be a transition where inetd-dependent packages like pawserv will need to add a direct depends on something like "inetd" or "internet-super-server|openbsd-inetd". Until that time however, a direct inetd dependency is a bug. Thanks, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail.
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