On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 04:04:36PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > One user claimed it would inconvenience users, but provided no supporting > details about why a user would run it manually. > http://lists.debian.org/debian-hams/2010/08/msg00032.html > The package's own documentation states "Node is intended to be called from > ax25d or inetd." > > A similar case with a large userbase is the syslog daemon. Debian used > to ship standard with a /usr/sbin/syslogd. Then it was replaced with a > /usr/sbin/rsyslog, from a different package. Since rsyslog is Priority > important, it gets installed automatically, and this removes sysklogd; > you can verify this happened to most users on [1]. However, we have > not lost any sleep over users who might have something that ran > /usr/sbin/syslogd directly, and I've never seen this inconvenience a > single user. > > I don't know if there's any reason users would be more likely to run > node manually than syslogd manually. Even if there is, the vast > difference in userbases (multiple orders of magnitude) suggests it's > unlikely to inconvenience many users. Probably this case is sufficiently > edge that a NEWS file would do. >
The syslog case does not apply since the *standard* syslog was changed at the distribution level and another package *provides* the same functionality. Users could, if the old syslog package is still in the archive, install the old syslog as an alternative. nodejs *only* exists in unstable. A name change in unstable should be less disruptive because it is, well - unstable. Pat -- Patrick Ouellette p...@flying-gecko.net ne4po (at) arrl (dot) net Amateur Radio: NE4PO What kind of change have you been in the world today? -- 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/20111116203827.ga29...@flying-gecko.net
