Re: Glibc Packaging Issues

[david@elo.sw.ods.com (David Engel)]

I hope you don't mind me copying this back to debian-devel.

Peter Tobias writes:
> David Engel wrote:
> > 5. Glibc provides the rpcgen and rpcinfo programs.  Should these
> > replace the versions already in the netstd package?  [No]
> 
> > 8. Glibc provides the /etc/rpc file.  Should this replace the version
> > in the netbase package?  [No]
> 
> I think it might be a good idea to move the rpc tools (and /etc/rpc) to
> libc6(-bin?). The rpc tools rely on the rpc header files. I would use
> the libc6 versions anyway.

I can see rpcgen in libc6-dev since it's only used to build binaries
using RPC.  Right?  However, I feel pretty strongly that rpcinfo
belongs in one of the network packages.  I suppose /etc/rpc could be
moved to base-files.

David
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