On Mon, Feb 10, 2025 at 02:57:47PM +0100, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote: > How important is `exch`? Is it a tool that is really essential, and > should thus be in the "util-linux" package, which is installed on > each and every Debian installation? > > I've been avoiding adding new stuff to "util-linux" to avoid > bloating it even more. > > Can it land in util-linux-extra, which is at least only > pseudo-Essential? Or some other package, like bsdutils or > bsdextrautils (not the best names)? >
It could in principle also go to util-linux-extra, but it would be a nice addition in the default set. Looking at other distros, Arch, CentOS 10 Stream (and therefore once it trickles down its downstreams RHEL, Alma und Rocky), and openSUSE Tumbleweed ship it by default. In the spirit of fewer differences between distros that necessitate fallback codepaths, it would make sense to add this. Also, it is rather small: > $ du /usr/bin/exch > 16 /usr/bin/exch > Regarding your merge request: this seems to miss installing man > pages into the appropriate packages. > Updated the MR, hopefully that should be enough.
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