Re: Bug#64460: whois package shouldn't be Priority: important, rather optional
On Sun, May 21, 2000 at 09:41:10PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> >Many packages that are way more important to most people than whois
> >currently aren't even close to `Priority: important', I recommend that
> >you lower the priority of the package to `optional'. TIA.
> It just inherited the priority of bsdutils, from which I split it.
No, bsdutils has required priority, and has had it for a long time now.
> I suppose it could be downgraded to standard, but whois is something I
> expect to find on *every* unix system.
I believe you do, but a large majority of people never even heard of whois,
and will never need it. Besides, most people expect to find X on every unix
system, yet most of X in Debian is optional. OTOH argument to keep whois
with the default Debian system (i.e. with a priority higher than optional)
is its very small size.
Let's CC: this to debian-devel, maybe someone else (smarter than me :) has
an opinion on this.
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