On Wed, 09 Feb 2011, John Goerzen wrote: > On 02/08/2011 05:04 PM, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > >Similar AX.25 tools "call" and "listen" were renamed in 2007 to ax* > >(package ax25-apps), because those names were too generic (according to > >the changelog). > > ... resulting in considerable confusion from many people, given that > much documentation out there refers to call and listen. I, for one, > was rather puzzled, especially since there is also an ax25_call > which does something different. > > Not saying it was a bad choice, but just that this was what the > result was. Much existing documentation is confusing to Debian > users. > > Also, it should be stated that /usr/sbin/node is normally started > from ax25d, which is somewhat analogous to inetd. It is not > normally invoked by users (though it could be). Renaming it will > break servers unless users are well aware.
Can it be fixed by the package postinst (i.e. update ax25d's config files)? If it is something that is supposed to run through a superserver, it would be much better off in /usr/lib somewhere... -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110209163248.gb16...@khazad-dum.debian.net
