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Bug#590436: Why does cups-bsd depend on update-inetd?



Quoting Didier 'OdyX' Raboud (2014-02-25 18:58:16)
> Le mardi, 25 février 2014, 17.14:20 Paul Slootman a écrit :
>> I'm still requesting that it not depend on update-inetd, but instead
>> e.g. recommend it.
>
> Hmm, fair enough.
>
>>> http://sources.debian.net/src/cups/1.7.1-5/debian/README.Debian#L137
>>
>> That states that this ability is for testing purposes... those that 
>> want to test this situation should be smart enough to understand that 
>> update-inetd should be installed for this. The majority of cups-bsd 
>> users don't need update-inetd and forcing update-inetd on those 
>> people is unnecessary bloat.
>
> I'll demote the dependency to a recommendation and add conditionals in 
> the maintainer scripts then; patch attached.

If I read correctly that *majority* do not need it, then even 
recommending it is too strong: Please only suggest.


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