Re: Finger daemons in Debian should use a virtual package
On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 10:26:16AM +1000, Herbert Xu 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?
Yes, so what? They should have been that way already, as they are all a
replacement for the original finger daemon, which was (is?) standard.
> Anyway, it seems to be a pointless change for potato.
If it was pointless, none of the other groups of server packages would do it.
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