Re: Netstd changes?
Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 05, 1999 at 09:21:27PM -0600, David Starner wrote:
> > For the requisite horror story/explaination of why this is a problem,
> > netstd now depends on ftpd, which conflicts with my ftp demon,
> > wu-ftpd. But I can't remove netstd, because devscripts depends on
> > it. Apt doesn't like this. So I end up having to equivs netstd to get
> > it to work.
>
> netstd should depend on "ftp-server | ftpd | wu-ftpd | proftpd" rather
> than on "ftpd".
>
> that's assuming that "ftp-server" is a valid virtual package name. if it
> isn't then it should be.
Correct, "ftp-server" is a valid virtual package name, so IMHO netstd should
recommend "ftpd | wu-ftpd".
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