On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 10:16:39PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > On Tue, 2010-09-07 at 22:50 +0300, Faidon Liambotis wrote: > > * Remove useless binaries aelparse, conf2ael and muted. > > Why are they useless?
I was trying to document those strange utilities. I noticed that running aelparse either no arguments, '-h', '--help' or whatever just gives a huge dump of output. When I asked upstream, while attempting to write a man page, if it shouldn't have a more useful reply, I was answered that it is a debugging usility anyway. It can only parse the hardwired names extensions.conf and extensions.ael and such. In response they were removed upstream altogether. Though not from the then-feature-frozen branch 1.6.2.0, which was almost a year ago. Sadly I didn't notice this ommosion until later on and only fixed it in our SVN later. Later on I noticed the package still includes them and wrote a trivial patch to remove them. conf2ael and aelparse are two mostly internal utilities. I do not recall any recommendation to use them on any mailing list. They force a very inconvinient files layout and their defaultas are bad. conf2ael segfaults on my system (just noticed it while writing this mail. Just a general indication that nobody cares). muted: Hardly useful. Written mostly for internal usage within Digium. Uses /etc/muted.conf, which is a not policiy-compliant location. Does not have any user-defined config file. I also don't like the namespace-polluting name. -- Tzafrir Cohen icq#16849755 jabber:tzafrir.co...@xorcom.com +972-50-7952406 mailto:tzafrir.co...@xorcom.com http://www.xorcom.com iax:gu...@local.xorcom.com/tzafrir -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org