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@atlas13.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk>, Christian Kurz <shorty@debian.org>, 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: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
- Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 10:26:16 +1000
- Message-id: <[🔎] 20000522102616.A19967@gondor.apana.org.au>
- In-reply-to: <[🔎] 20000521161343.A15992@cibalia.gkvk.hr>; from joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr on Sun, May 21, 2000 at 04:13:43PM +0200
- References: <[🔎] 20000521161343.A15992@cibalia.gkvk.hr>
On Sun, May 21, 2000 at 04:13:43PM +0200, 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
You do realise that with this change, all finger daemons except one will
have to be lowered to the priority of extra?
Anyway, it seems to be a pointless change for potato.
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