Bug#604100: tasksel: Please readd netatalk to file-server task: protocol not _too_ old
Package: tasksel
Version: 2.85
Severity: normal
Hi,
I notice netatalk being dropped from file-server task in 2.85.
Maybe this is carefully thought out, I don't know. I don't know since
there is no reference to a bugreport or anywhere else this have been
discussed.
I am the current package maintainer of netatalk, and find it somewhat
odd that you judge it as irrelevant due to being "old". Well, smb is
old too, so I suspect the real qualifier is if it is commonly in active
use.
Even if the historical underlying network protocol, Appletalk, have been
abandoned by Apple for quite some time, netatalk also works on top of
tcp, and is is in active use among Macintosh users, I believe: It is an
essential part of the backup routine "time machine".
So please consider reenabling netatalk in the file-server task.
And please consider involving the package maintainer of packages you
consider dropping in the future :-)
Kind regards,
- Jonas
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.36-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=da_DK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=da_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages tasksel depends on:
ii aptitude 0.6.3-3.2 terminal-based package manager (te
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.36 Debian configuration management sy
ii liblocale-gettext-perl 1.05-6 Using libc functions for internati
ii tasksel-data 2.85 Official tasks used for installati
tasksel recommends no packages.
tasksel suggests no packages.
-- debconf information:
tasksel/title:
tasksel/desktop: gnome
tasksel/first:
tasksel/tasks:
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