On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 12:45:18AM -0400, Mark W. Eichin wrote: > It looks like "floppyd" is the only thing that needs X. > I'm not sure it *is* better to fork things off; that's a fair amount > of hair for one isolated program.
Maybe not - it wouldn't be the first nor the last 50kb large Debian package. I can help (provide patches or do NMU) with separating it into another package, shouldn't be such big problem. > Given the extent to which new package insertion from incoming has been > backlogged, I'm afraid it might also be a while before it got uploaded, Someone will take care of that in reasonable amount of time, surely. > and I'd have to consider instead dropping floppyd from the install, though > that seems a poor choice... Yes, I wasn't arguing against packaging that program, but against its placement in mtools package. Sure, if it's useful, let people use it :) -- enJoy -*/\*- don't even try to pronounce my first name