Re: Bug#64460: whois package shouldn't be Priority: important, rather optional
On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 12:33:01AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> >> I suppose it could be downgraded to standard, but whois is something I
> >> expect to find on *every* unix system.
> >I believe you do, but a large majority of people never even heard of whois,
> >and will never need it. Besides, most people expect to find X on every unix
> It's a well known fact a large majority of people is stupid and/or knows
> fuck about UNIX and networking.
I meant large majority of people using Debian... things like that should be
fairly obvious. We aren't talking about sheep here :>
> whois has been a standard BSD command like telnet and ftp since at least
> then years, so I think this is enough to consider it important and close
> this bug.
As Ruud already pointed out, those aren't Severity: important. Anyway.
netbase has lower priority than whois. So do telnet, ftp, dnsutils,
nfs-server, which are related, and e.g. binutils, bison, gcc, make, m4, etc.
that aren't much related. I see little reason why whois would be more
important than any of those.
(Besides, Debian isn't made to be a near-perfect emulation of Unix(-like)
system. Most of our users won't need whois installed on every of their
machine, because simply not everyone in the world is a network
administrator, nor an administrator at all, or interested in knowing who
owns foo.com. If they suddenly need it, they'll get it, easily.)
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