[mosh-devel] Fwd: Bug#663291: please split package into server and client packages

[Christine Spang]

I don't really care, but think it's perfectly sane to mark as WONTFIX
and tell madduck no. I doubt it will really lose mosh any users.

later,
Christine

On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 12:52:09AM -0500, Karl Ramm wrote:
> I think it adds needless complexity, especially since the client and server
> seem to be linked with all the same stuff and so would have the same
> dependencies, and the effort is not worth saving 300k of installed disk
> space for people who have the rm command available.
> 
> I for one would be tempted out of sheer perversity at this point to merge
> them into one binary.
> 
> (Also, Keith, are you referring to #662939 there as the other bug?  That's
> more of a fine point about dependencies and the multiplicity of ssh
> implementations in debian..)
> 
> kcr
> 
> seph <seph at MIT.EDU> writes:
> 
> > Some people have policy about how they have the minimal set of things on
> > the server. I haven't really decided about the merits of that sort of
> > policy, but removing the binaries people don't need isn't that hard. I
> > think if it's easy enough, may as well just do it. (And I think it's
> > pretty easy)
> >
> > seph
> >
> > Keith Winstein <keithw at MIT.EDU> writes:
> >
> >> Do our Debian experts have an opinion on whether this is worth doing? We've
> >> gotten two bugs asking for a separate server package.
> >>
> >> I would not have thought it was worth it (the client just sits there,
> >> although it does pull in openssh-client), but don't really feel that
> >> strongly.
> >>
> >> Keith
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