Package: uuid-runtime Version: 1.40.8-2 Severity: wishlist Please consider changing the package description for uuid-runtime to the following: <snip> libuuid generates and parses 128-bit universally unique id's (UUID's). See RFC 4122 for more information.
This package contains the uuidgen program and the uuidd daemon. The uuidd daemon is used generate universally unique identifiers (UUIDs), especially time-based UUID’s, in a secure and guaranteed-unique fashion, even in the face of large numbers of threads trying to grab UUID’s running on different CPU’s. It is used by by libuuid as well as the uuidgen program. </snip> Motivation: The package is currently recommended by the library but from the package description it is not clear why you'd want to install it or when you might not need it. The fact that the package is only recommended means that libuuid-runtime will *not* be installed on newly installed Debian systems by default (both debootstrap and Debian Installer do not install recommended packages). If that was not the intention, then please consider increasing the priority to "standard". Colin Watson tells me that for Ubuntu it is already included in the base system. Cheers, FJP
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