OK, then I suspect the policy is at fault. (BTW, I checked it out and I did find dc and bc on SunOS -- I had not known these programs were on other OSs.)
By the current definition of Important: * Sendmail should be there instead of smail since people expect sendmail * dpkg-dev should not be there since no experienced user of another Unix would expect it * lilo should not be there because lilo is not part of UNIX And: * gcc should be in Important because everybody expects a C compiler * libc5-dev should be there because everybody expects working header files * make should be there, I expect a working make in any Unix * lpr should be there, it is standard with just about any Unix * netbase and netstd should both be there, they are standard on Unix * csh/tcsh should be there (again, standard on various Unices) * The list goes on... Basically, it seems that this policy doesn't quite apply correctly. James Troup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > It seems to me that dc and bc aren't vital to the workings of a > > system (when I deselect them, dselect doesn't warn about any > > dependencies), yet they are in Important. Why? > > Because they match the first definition of Important in Policy (see > below). When I released my first version of bc/dc I downgraded them > to Optional by mistake and someone complained; that's obviously one > person who agrees with me. Does anyone else think bc/dc should be > downgraded? (If so, why?) > > ``Important programs, including those which one would expect to find > on any Unix-like system. If the expectation is that an experienced > Unix person who found it missing would go `What the F*!@<+ is going > on, where is foo', it should be in important. This is an important > criterion because we are trying to produce, amongst other things, a > free Unix.'' (3.1.4.1 of debian-policy 2.1.3.3) > > -- > James > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > -- John Goerzen | Running Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Custom Programming | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
