On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 09:21 +1300, Glynn Foster wrote: > Hi, > > Damien Carbery wrote: > >>> 2) You say that "we do not use it (psktool) now". Is it a problem to > >>> leave that file in the package? Maybe someone else will need that file.\ > >> Because psktool is a new tool imported by gnutls. It still doesn't exist > >> in gnome 2.16. So removing it will not effect other modules or > >> applications. Evolution doesn't want to ship it. I agree to remove it. > > My suggestion to leave it in is to 'future proof' the package i.e. if a > > module needs the file (it could be a 3rd party application) then it will > > be available without asking us to change the package. > > We cannot predict who will need this file. > > > > I have no idea what this file does so I cannot decide if it likely that > > another module will need it. I am trying to think of unusual circumstances. > > If it is to be removed then include a comment like this: > > "- Omit psktool as it is not in GNOME and not used by Evolution, the > > primary customer of this package." > > I think you need to be more detailed about what that tool does, and why there > are no current dependencies on it. Saying that 'Evolution doesn't need it' is > insufficient.
psktool Simple PSK password tool Very simple program that generates random keys for use with TLS-PSK. The keys are stored in hexadecimal format in a file. Because it's not included in the old version of gnutls which we shipped before so no one uses it right now. Regards, Jedy Wang > > > Glynn
