On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 06:40:39PM +0100, Evgeni Golov wrote: > Package: telnet > Version: 0.17-32 > Severity: normal > > *** Please type your report below this line *** > > As written in the subject, the telnet package has an indirect dependency > on inetd (through the netbase meta-package), but as I understand, the > telnet client itself does not need the inetd being installed to work. > Because of that I like to ask you, if you couldn't change the Depends: > of telnet to the packages really needed from netbase. > Background: I want to have the telnet client on a box, but I don't want > an inetd to be running/installed. >
Telnet depends on /etc/services, which is provided by netbase. So you probably want to file this bug against netbase, since you may want to have /etc/services & /etc/init.d/network but no inetd. Feel free to close this bug or reassign it to netbase. Regards, Alberto -- Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta | Formación, consultoría y soporte técnico agi@(inittab.org|debian.org)| en GNU/Linux y software libre Encrypted mail preferred | http://inittab.com Key fingerprint = 9782 04E7 2B75 405C F5E9 0C81 C514 AF8E 4BA4 01C3
