Bug#1115255: override: netcat-openbsd:net/standard

[Chris Hofstädtler <zeha@debian.org>]

Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-boot@lists.debian.org, netcat-openbsd@packages.debian.org, netcat@packages.debian.org
Control: affects -1 + src:netcat-openbsd
Control: tags -1 + moreinfo
User: ftp.debian.org@packages.debian.org
Usertags: override

Hi everyone,

for a very long time we have the "netcat-openbsd" package. In the 
past, src:netcat provided a "netcat" binary package, but it was 
renamed (with a long-standing, now removed, transitional package) to 
"netcat-traditional".

For your reference, the package descriptions are:

Package: netcat-traditional
Description-en: TCP/IP swiss army knife
 A simple Unix utility which reads and writes data across network
 connections using TCP or UDP protocol. It is designed to be a reliable
 "back-end" tool that can be used directly or easily driven by other
 programs and scripts. At the same time it is a feature-rich network
 debugging and exploration tool, since it can create almost any kind
 of connection you would need and has several interesting built-in
 capabilities.
 .
 This is the "classic" netcat, written by *Hobbit*. It lacks many
 features found in netcat-openbsd.


Package: netcat-openbsd
Description-en: TCP/IP swiss army knife
 A simple Unix utility which reads and writes data across network connections
 using TCP or UDP protocol. It is designed to be a reliable "back-end" tool
 that can be used directly or easily driven by other programs and scripts. At
 the same time it is a feature-rich network debugging and exploration tool,
 since it can create almost any kind of connection you would need and has
 several interesting built-in capabilities.
 .
 This package contains the OpenBSD rewrite of netcat, including support for
 IPv6, proxies, and Unix sockets.


Yet netcat-traditional is still Priority: standard, and thus the 
one included in normal installs.

I would like to see the Priority fields to be switched, so:
  netcat-openbsd becomes Priority: standard
  netcat-traditional becomes Priority: optional

What does everyone think?

Chris


NB: netcat-traditional currently FTBFS.