[pkg-bacula-devel] Should bacula-server Recommend: bacula-console?

Carsten Leonhardt leo at debian.org
Tue Sep 20 22:50:42 UTC 2016


>> I wonder if anyone ever installed bacula-client on it's own and not as a
>> dependency of the bacula metapackage.
>
> Hmm. I find it odd to bundle bacula-fd and bacula-console in one
> package. Those two packages really have not the same audience.

> I think it make more sense to have bacula-console Recommended by
> bacula-server, remove bacula-client and replace bacula-client by
> bacula-fd in the bacula meta package.

I think I'd prefer a Depends: bacula console in bacula-server. If
someone wants finer control, they can always select the packages they
want themselves.

I'll change that tomorrow.



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