tftpd: Suggest mentioning no tsize in package description

[Matthew Flaschen]

James A. T. Rice wrote:
> Package: tftpd
> Version: 0.17-16ubuntu1
> Severity: minor

This is not the Ubuntu bug tracker.  Ubuntu bugs must be reported to
Launchpad (https://bugs.launchpad.net/).

> The package description mentions it's not suitable for serving pxe clients,
> but that is rather lacking in actual scope.

I fail to understand how anyone seeing both "Tftpd is not suitable for
use with the PXE bootloader" could legitimately think it would work with
a PXE client.

It might be nice to say /why/ it doesn't work with PXE clients, but it's
clear that it /doesn't/.

> "Warning: Does not support 'tsize', thus will cause PXE (and various) other
> clients requiring tsize to fail. For those, use atftpd or tftpd-hpa."

Why would anyone assume it supports tsize, when it clearly says it is
based on RFC 783 (the tftpd definition), which clearly has no mention of
tsize (or indeed any option).

tsize is an /option/ and as RFC 2347 makes clear, tftp servers have no
obligation to support any particular option, or indeed any option at all.

> 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).

Why should the default package be the complicated one when a simpler one
meets all actual requirements of the standard?

Matt Flaschen