tftpd: Suggest mentioning no tsize in package description
James A. T. Rice
james_r-tftpfrustration at jump.org.uk
Mon Feb 9 00:47:26 UTC 2009
Package: tftpd
Version: 0.17-16ubuntu1
Severity: minor
tftpd does not support 'tsize'. This causes problems with various tftp clients,
including pxe clients, and intel based macs while booting. The lack of debugging
information from clients trying to boot via tftp this early in the boot process
makes debugging difficult.
The package description mentions it's not suitable for serving pxe clients,
but that is rather lacking in actual scope. I'd suggest at least changing the
wording on the package description to something stronger, for example:
"Warning: Does not support 'tsize', thus will cause PXE (and various) other
clients requiring tsize to fail. For those, use atftpd or tftpd-hpa."
It would make peoples lives easier if tsize support was added, or if the package
was renamed somewhat to make it less of a default tftp package (ie tftpd-simple).
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers intrepid-updates
APT policy: (500, 'intrepid-updates'), (500, 'intrepid-security'), (500, 'intrepid')
Architecture: i386 (i586)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.27-11-generic (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages tftpd depends on:
ii libc6 2.8~20080505-0ubuntu8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii openbsd-inetd [ine 0.20080125-1 The OpenBSD Internet Superserver
tftpd recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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