Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

[Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>]

On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 12:48 PM, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> On 27.11.2014 02:18, Josh Triplett wrote:
>
>> gnome Depends: gnome-core, which Depends: gnome-user-share, which
>> Depends: apache2-bin (or apache2.2-bin in stable, which is a
>> transitional package depending on apache2-bin in unstable).
>
> gnome depends on apache ?

gnome-user-share uses apache2 to share files on the local network via WebDAV.

http://sources.debian.net/src/gnome-user-share/3.14.0-1/src/http.c/#L270
http://sources.debian.net/src/gnome-user-share/3.14.0-1/src/user_share-webdav.c/#L161
http://sources.debian.net/src/gnome-user-share/3.14.0-1/src/user_share-webdav.c/#L65

> seriously ?

Sharing files with other computers on the local network seems like
perfectly reasonable and useful feature to me. In the past I have done
it with the busybox httpd but the gnome-user-share implementation
seems to be much more user friendly.

-- 
bye,
pabs

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