Bug#848229: systemd: Should systemd provide netbase?

[Michael Biebl]

Control: reassign -1 netbase
Control: retitle -1 Drop/Demote recommends on ifupdown

Am 15.12.2016 um 13:17 schrieb Olliver Schinagl:
> Package: systemd
> Version: 232-3
> Severity: normal
> File: systemd-networkd
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> currently, when installing a small server, with systemd(-sysv),isc-dhcp-
> server,openntpd
> 
> it pulls in some dependencies, of which one comes from netbase, which is a
> dependancy of openntpd.
> 
> While the choice ultimatly is with the user, having systemd-networkd and
> systemd-resolved, which covers most basic network needs and in theory supplies
> netbase. So should systemd not also thus provide netbase?
> 
> If a user wants to install other network tools or packages depend on specific
> networking packages, they can list them as such, naturally.

Having systemd Provides: netbase doesn't really make sense. systemd
doesn't provide that functionality after all.

You could ask the netbase maintainer, Marco, though, if he was open to
drop the Recommends: ifupdown or demote it to Suggests.
That would seem like a reasonable suggestion to me.

So I'm reassigning this to netbase and let Marco decide.

Regards,
Michael
-- 
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