Re: Finger daemons in Debian should use a virtual package
- To: Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr>
- Cc: Richard Braakman <dark@debian.org>, Martin Schulze <joey@debian.org>, Radovan Garabik <garabik@melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk>, KELEMEN Peter <fuji@debian.org>, Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>, debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-policy@lists.debian.org
- Subject: Re: Finger daemons in Debian should use a virtual package
- From: Christian Kurz <shorty@debian.org>
- Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 18:13:28 +0200
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On 00-05-21 Josip Rodin wrote:
[...]
> Since there's not much point in running a fingerd on a non-standard port (at
> least I haven't seen done anywhere, or a finger program that can query
> different ports), it would seem appropriate to make these packages provide
> and conflicts with a virtual package called `finger-server', i.e. add this
> to the control file:
> Provides: finger-server
> Conflicts: finger-server
> The virtual package should be added to the official Policy list of virtual
> packages, too.
[...]
I would second this proposal of Josip and support it.
Ciao
Christian
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