On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 10:34:27PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote:
> Package: freeradius
> Version: 1.1.3-3
>
> It's currently impossible to get the RADIUS client software from the
> FreeRADIUS distribution without getting the server, which opens a network
> port, which is obviously bad for security when you just wanted a client,
> and if you disable the server you have to maintain a heap of needless
> software on the system and a conffile change, yadda yadda yadda.
> It's just wrong (against the spirit of the packaging system and the practice
> of every other client-server software package in Debian).
>
> The following binaries should be in a package called freeradius-client or
> something like that:
>
> /usr/bin/radclient
> /usr/bin/radeapclient
> /usr/bin/radtest
>
> They are all generic RADIUS client software that doesn't depend on
> a FreeRADIUS server in particular, and they don't depend on a RADIUS server
> on localhost either.
I think I see the reason why they were kept inside the same package:
libradius-1.1.7.so => /usr/lib/freeradius/libradius-1.1.7.so
(0x00002b2b3ea9d000)
Ugh. This would usually go into a libradius-1.1.7 package, but because
this is a just a shared object file (rather than a proper shared library),
you can put it into something like freeradius-common, and keep a strict
dependency on it.
Also, radclient needs the dictionary files, so /etc/freeradius/dictionary
and /usr/share/freeradius/dictionary* should go in the common package too.
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