Your message dated Wed, 8 Oct 2014 10:20:35 +0200
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and subject line Re: Bug#764434: [bsdutils] extended description claims
scriptreplay and others are needed
has caused the Debian Bug report #764434,
regarding [bsdutils] extended description claims scriptreplay and others are
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Package: bsdutils
Version: 1:2.25.1-3
Severity: minor
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
The extended description reads:
This package contains the bare minimum of BSD utilities needed for a Debian system: logger, renice, script, scriptreplay, and wall. The remaining standard BSD utilities are provided by bsdmainutils.
While bsdutils does contain the listed utilities, and while bsdutils is flagged
as essential, Debian systems surely do not need script and scriptreplay, at
least.
By the way, I'm not sure "standard BSD utilities" means anything, but if it does, the
last paragraph of bsdmainutils's extended description strongly suggests the sentence is no longer
correct. It could be removed or changed to "Other BSD utilities are provided by
bsdmainutils."
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Hello Filipus Klutiero!
On Tue, Oct 07, 2014 at 11:54:35PM -0400, Filipus Klutiero wrote:
> Package: bsdutils
> Version: 1:2.25.1-3
> Severity: minor
> X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
>
> The extended description reads:
> >This package contains the bare minimum of BSD utilities needed for a
> >Debian system: logger, renice, script, scriptreplay, and wall. The
> >remaining standard BSD utilities are provided by bsdmainutils.
>
> While bsdutils does contain the listed utilities, and while bsdutils is
> flagged as essential, Debian systems surely do not need script and
> scriptreplay, at least.
>
>
> By the way, I'm not sure "standard BSD utilities" means anything, but if it
> does, the last paragraph of bsdmainutils's extended description strongly
> suggests the sentence is no longer correct. It could be removed or changed to
> "Other BSD utilities are provided by bsdmainutils."
This is a discussion you don't want to have with only me. Instead try
to reach consensus with what the wider Debian community thinks.
Personally I have no problem with getting rid of all the BSD legacy
but I know there are people out there who would rather see the sun
stop burning then this happening.
See for example the followup in the thread about trimming priority standard:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2014/09/msg00466.html
I'm thus going to close your bug report as I don't see anything
that's supposed to be fixed here. (I'll additionally set the wontfix
tag to make sure this shows up in anyone searching for things
in the future that has gone unfixed for various reasons.)
All I can do about the "standard BSD utilities" phrase not having any
meaning to you is to suggest you do something which by todays means might
be called archeology, or atleast getting to know the history.
Regards,
Andreas Henriksson
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