Bug#1013868: nfs-common: Split between Python scripts to separate package

[Gioele Barabucci <gioele@svario.it>]

On Fri, 01 Jul 2022 21:57:44 +0200 Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> 
wrote:> On Sun, 2022-06-26 at 09:47 +0200, Gioele Barabucci wrote:
> > Package: nfs-common
> > Version: 1:2.6.1-2
> > 
> > Dear maintainers of nfs-common,
> > 
> > could you please move the three Python scripts included in nfs-common to 
> > a separate -extras package?
>
> No, the postinst may run nfsconvert.py.
>
> > Currently nfs-common Depends on `python3` and, on lean/containerized 
> > client systems, it is the only package that requires it. For this 
> > reason, in 2019 Fedora moved the scripts `mountstats`, `nfsiostat` and 
> > `nfsconvert` to a separate package [1,2], required on servers (for 
> > `nfsconver`) but not on clients.
>
> nfsconvert.py is also required on clients.
>
> We can remove nfsconvert.py and revisit this after the bookworm
> release.

Hi,

now that nfsconvert.py has been removed (thanks!) [1], do you think it 
would be possible to move these Python scripts to a separate package?

Are patches/MR welcome?

[1] https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/nfs-utils/-/commit/490e6fd

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Gioele Barabucci