reopen 764434
thanks
Hi Andreas,
On 2014-10-08 04:20, Andreas Henriksson wrote:
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: 532...@bugs.debian.org
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.
You must have received this mail because you are part of Debian's util-linux
maintainers. I did not specifically send this email to you.
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 guess the issue I meant to report wasn't clear. I'm sure some of the contents of
bsdutils don't need priority essential, but I was by no means asking to get "rid of
all the BSD legacy". All I'm asking is to change the description so readers stop
being misled.
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.)
Tickets can be closed or tagged wontfix, not both simultaneously. In this case,
you meant to tag wontfix (by closing, people looking for unfixed things will
cease to see the ticket).
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.
I'm not sure which history you allude to, but if that's your only suggestion, I
can only recommend to cease using that term.
Regards,
Andreas Henriksson
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