[Debian GNUstep maintainers] Bug#717773: /usr/bin/gdomap: please split out gdomap or disable it by default

[Simon McVittie]

Package: gnustep-base-runtime
Version: 1.22.1-4.1
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/bin/gdomap

file-roller, part of GNOME, recommends unar, which depends on
gnustep-base-runtime. gnustep-base-runtime starts a system daemon,
gdomap.

According to the gdomap man page and the documentation at
<http://www.gnustep.org/resources/documentation/Developer/Tools/Reference/gdomap.html>,
gdomap "should be started (as root) at system boot time (if inter-host
messaging is desired)".

On systems where OpenStep inter-host messaging is *not* desired - which I
expect means most of them, since LANs where you can't implicitly trust
everyone else on the LAN are common - it seems undesirable, or at best
useless, to be running this daemon. Please consider disabling it by default,
or separating it into a binary package that other things only Suggest,
or something.

Workaround: "systemctl stop gdomap.service; systemctl mask gdomap.service"
(systemd) or "invoke-rc.d gdomap stop; update-rc.d gdomap disable" (sysvinit)
or equivalent.

Regards,
    S

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers proposed-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.10-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gnustep-base-runtime depends on:
ii  gnustep-base-common                    1.22.1-4.1
ii  gnustep-common [gnustep-fslayout-fhs]  2.6.2-2.1
ii  libc6                                  2.17-7
ii  libgcc1                                1:4.8.1-8
ii  libgnustep-base1.22                    1.22.1-4.1
ii  libobjc4                               4.8.1-8
ii  lsb-base                               4.1+Debian12

gnustep-base-runtime recommends no packages.

gnustep-base-runtime suggests no packages.

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