On Wed, 12 Oct 2011, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
From daniel.baum...@progress-technologies.net Wed Oct 12 13:33:09 2011
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 19:29:46 +0200
From: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baum...@progress-technologies.net>
To: 644462-d...@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: [syslinux] split out syslinux(1) should depend mtools
the syslinux binary package contains other stuff than just
/usr/bin/syslinux, and again, i do not want it to depend on mtools.
I am aware that the syslinux binary package contains other things than
just /usr/bin/syslinux, as I mentioned in the initial report. Let us have
a look:
% /usr/bin/gethostip
% /usr/bin/isohybrid
% /usr/bin/memdiskfind
% /usr/bin/syslinux
Four binaries, okay.
% /usr/share/doc/syslinux/README.Debian
% /usr/share/doc/syslinux/TODO.Debian
% /usr/share/doc/syslinux/changelog.Debian.gz
% /usr/share/doc/syslinux/changelog.gz
% /usr/share/doc/syslinux/copyright
Standard boilerplate.
% /usr/share/doc/syslinux/examples/mtoolsrc
Also pretty standard; an example file.
% /usr/share/man/man1/gethostip.1.gz
% /usr/share/man/man1/isohybrid.1.gz
% /usr/share/man/man1/memdiskfind.1.gz
% /usr/share/man/man1/syslinux.1.gz
Manpages; required by policy for the binaries.
That makes a total of four binaries, and a bunch of boilerplate/required
files. I am positively *baffled* how it is reasonable to claim that it is
okay for one-fourth of a package to be broken in its standard state!
"I don't want to" is not a compelling argument for this state; back in
sarge (!) when #265275 was filed, the syslinux package also included such
things as:
./usr/bin/syslinux2ansi
./usr/bin/lss16toppm
./usr/bin/ppmtolss16
./usr/lib/syslinux/img1743k.gz
./usr/lib/syslinux/img720k.gz
./usr/lib/syslinux/syslinux.com
./usr/lib/syslinux/img1200k.gz
./usr/lib/syslinux/img1440k.gz
./usr/lib/syslinux/syslinux.exe
./usr/lib/syslinux/copybs.com
./usr/lib/syslinux/pxelinux.0
./usr/lib/syslinux/isolinux.bin
./usr/lib/syslinux/isolinux-debug.bin
./usr/lib/syslinux/memdisk
./usr/lib/syslinux/ldlinux.bss
./usr/lib/syslinux/ldlinux.sys
[25 files in /usr/share/doc/syslinux/examples]
./usr/share/doc/syslinux/comboot.doc
./usr/share/doc/syslinux/syslinux.doc
./usr/share/doc/syslinux/pxelinux.doc
./usr/share/doc/syslinux/isolinux.doc
./usr/share/doc/syslinux/memdisk.doc
./usr/share/man/man1/ppmtolss16.1.gz
./usr/share/man/man1/syslinux2ansi.1.gz
./usr/share/man/man1/gethostip.1.gz
./usr/share/man/man1/lss16toppm.1.gz
Now, that's a good selection of data files, and the explanation given when
closing 265275, that people wanted the sysutils package for data files and
adding the dependency would penalize them, is plausable. Yet the data
files are gone in the present sysutils package, so this explanation cannot
be reused wholesale. Please provide an argument that is compelling in the
present situation, or add the dependency.
-Ben Kaduk
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