Package: fingerd
Version: 0.17-14
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
I only noticed this dependency because I was uninstalling finger (now
that my ISP has stopped providing service lookups via port 79); so I
can't claim it's caused me any hardship, I'm just reporting it because
it seems like a breach of the dependency definitions in policy 7.2:
Depends: update-inetd, netbase, finger, libc6 (>= 2.2.5)
Why should having a finger server installed (which may just be a
service-status autoresponder) necessarily require me to keep a finger
client on the same machine? After all, I can do *local* lookups with
the /usr/bin/pinky in coreutils.
Compare efingerd, which "Suggests: finger", and cfingerd/xfingerd,
which express no dependency on a local client at all. My patch only
changes it as far as "Recommends: finger".
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.1
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages fingerd depends on:
ii finger 0.17-14 user information lookup program
ii libc6 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii netbase 4.45 Basic TCP/IP networking system
ii update-inetd 4.38+nmu1 inetd configuration file updater
fingerd recommends no packages.
fingerd suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
--
JBR
Ankh kak! (Ancient Egyptian blessing)
diff -ru bsd-finger-0.17.pristine/debian/control bsd-finger-0.17/debian/control
--- bsd-finger-0.17.pristine/debian/control 2010-02-12 03:49:07.000000000 +0000
+++ bsd-finger-0.17/debian/control 2011-04-09 23:29:11.625259004 +0100
@@ -14,7 +14,8 @@
Package: fingerd
Architecture: any
-Depends: update-inetd, netbase, finger, ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
+Depends: update-inetd, netbase, ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
+Recommends: finger
Replaces: netstd
Description: remote user information server
Fingerd is a simple daemon based on RFC1196 that provides an interface to the
