On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 06:11:13PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > > This package is of no use without mldonkey-server, either on the > > localhost, or on some other nearby machine. As mldonkey-server is not > > in testing at the moment, I think kmldonkey shouldn't either. > > kmldonkey merely recommends mldonkey-server to allow it being on > > another host; but you'd need another Debian release or a non-Debian > > machine to actually use this package. > > Are you saying that people are not allowed to use other operating > systems or obtain software in ways outside of the Debian packaging > system?
Eh, no, of course they are. Typically though this happens when the software in question in non-free, and then the package would be contrib, otherwise, yeah, one would *expect* software in Debian main to be self contained -- that is, useable within that release's main. It'd be a bit weird to release web forum software only working with a MS access database as backend, or xtris without available xtris server, etc etc, don't you think? Note that I consider this different from a typical client program for a web service, I would *not* consider an nntp client useless in Debian if there (hypothetically) were not a nntp server in Debian, as nntp servers are commonly available online. Not so with mldonkey-server though, that's a type of server expected to local, and certainly not a public service anywhere (because, amongst others, the resulting files are ttbomk stored server-side and one is expected to have access to them). --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber & MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
