iputils-arping appropriate for standard?

[Stephan Hermann]

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 12:22:26PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> In the foundations-m-spring-cleaning session at UDS, we wondered whether
> iputils-arping was really appropriate in ubuntu-standard.  This is
> installed on all Ubuntu systems other than those created using a bare
> debootstrap.  The seed comment is "would have made my life easier at
> debconf"; it dates back to revision 1 of the seeds, so I can't tell whom
> the pronoun refers to, but that must refer to one of our first
> gatherings at DebConf 4, so I'm guessing the comment is from James Troup
> (CCed).  Of course that would place this comment before the idea of
> universe was conceived, and back then whatever we had in main was all
> you got in Ubuntu ...
> 
> I don't really want to have a protracted argument over it since it's
> pretty small (23KB), and I generally like the idea of having some useful
> networking tools in standard; but it does seem like a relatively
> abstruse debugging tool to me.  Perhaps we should move this to supported
> somewhere, keeping it in main for security support but taking it off the
> CD?

I think this tool shouldn't be installed by default but should be available on the CD.
It's useful for SysAdmins and NetworkAdmins...but isn't necessary for Endusers.

regards,

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