Re: Bug#64438: RCS should be in `optional' or `extra', not `standard'

[Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@debian.org>]

> Whether it should be optional I don't know. My feeling is that standard is
> sensible. The definition of standard is that "These packages provide a
> reasonably small but not too limited character-mode system."; I would expect
> such a system to have rcs, my only slight worry is that at half a meg it's a
> little on the large side[1].
> 
> A large proportion of debian users are hackers who would be likely to use
> rcs (if they don't use cvs instead, of course). And it's not only useful to
> programmers; a lot of people keep config files in it, and it's very useful
> for any kind of document (I used it for my final year project report when I
> was at university).
> 
> However, if the general consensus is that optional is the right place for
> it, I've got no problem with moving it. That's why I'm ccing debian-devel on
> this mail.

 I vote for ``optional''. When someone needs RCS, he know he needs it.
`standard' means installing it in a lot of systems, 90% of them won't ever
use RCS.