[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Currently there are several packages which Build-Depend on netbase just to > have /etc/protocol and /etc/services available to run tests. Unfortunately, > this means that all of netbase's dependencies also need to be installed -- > and because of bug #162581, pbuilder can't even block inetd from starting in > its chroot, resulting in orphan inetd processes after the build is over. > > So I'd like to propose moving those data files from netbase to base-files. If > it's decided that these files are inappropriate content for an essential > package, I'd at least like to see something like netbase-data which could be > installed without all the heavy dependencies of netbase. I'd especially like > to hear the opinions of the netbase and base-files packages' maintainers on > this.
This seems like a very good idea. If there are really packages which are Build-Depending just to get those little database lists, they shouldn't need to Build-Depend on netbase. Actually, those lists have the interesting property of being semi-volatile data which changes (/should change) more often than the rest of netbase. I think this argues for putting them in a separate netbase-data package. In fact, this would solve in a certain sense the long argument about how many protocols/services to include in the lists: alternate packages could Provides: netbase-data if they included any superset of the most basic list. -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "(Instead, we front-load the flamewars and grudges in the interest of efficiency.)" --Steve Lanagasek, http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/09/msg01056.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
