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