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List:       debian-devel
Subject:    Please make openbsd-inetd of priority Extra.
From:       Pierre Habouzit <madcoder () debian ! org>
Date:       2009-03-23 9:14:24
Message-ID: 20090323091424.GB23181 () artemis ! corp
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Package: openbsd-inetd
Version: 0.20080125-2
Tags: squeeze sid
Severity: normal

Following the thread on debian-devel, where people seemed to agree with
such a move, could you please upload a new openbsd-inetd with its
priority set to Extra instead of Standard ?

Thanks.

On lun, mar 09, 2009 at 07:06:16 +0000, Pierre Habouzit wrote:
> We're in an era where inetds are less and less a central piece of a
> standard Linux distribution. Inetd was used in the past because many
> servers lacked a proper standalone mode, or were too memory-hungry.
> 
> Most machines nowadays have enough memory, and most daemons provide a
> standalone mode (I mean who configures apache as an inetd service ?).
> 
> Looking at my own case, my sole inetd uses are for bitlebee which
> nowadays provides a standalone mode, and git-daemon because I'm too lazy
> to write an init script.
> 
> Just looking at the packages requiring an inet superserver, you'll see that
> it's probably that nowadays users don't need a superserver at all[0].
> 
> I'm wondering if making super servers become optionnal wouldn't be a worthy
> goal for squeeze.


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 ·O ·  Pierre Habouzit
 · ·O                                                madcoder@debian.org
OOO                                                http://www.madism.org


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