On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 12:57:03AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > I don't know exactly how it happened, but a large number of maintainers > apparently ignored the discussions on this list and added to their > packages a dependency on update-inetd. > This is *TOTALLY WRONG* because the /usr/sbin/update-inetd interface is > guaranteed to be provided by whatever implements the inet-superserver > virtual package and not by the update-inetd package currently depended > on by some inetd packages. > Indeed, the update-inetd package does not depend on a daemon package nor > it provides one itself.
> Some of these packages instead are only slightly less broken and depend > both on inet-superserver and update-inetd, making impossible to install > a future xinetd package providing its own /usr/sbin/update-inetd. > For the same reason the dependency on netbase must be removed, > especially now that it does not depend anymore on inet-superserver. > (I know that in theory I should have waited for all packages to be fixed > before removing the dependency, but realistically this would not have > happened before lenny or lenny+1...) The rationale for samba depending on update-inetd was that samba does *not* depend on the availability of an inet superserver; it only depends on the availability of the update-inetd interface, in order for its maintainer scripts to run correctly. The relationship with inet-superserver is therefore of a 'suggests' nature, but the relationship with the update-inetd interface is a hard dependency. I understand that the swat package doesn't have this excuse, since it does depend on inet-superserver also. That, I can only attribute to my own poor memory for the previous discussion and -- as previously mentioned -- the lack of prominent documentation. But I would still like input on the use of this dependency for samba; I rather expect we would get complaints if samba depended on inet-superserver when it doesn't use it in the default configuration. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
