autofs needs portmap package
Bug #14792 reported by
Peter Kropf
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| autofs (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
|
Medium
|
Adam Conrad | ||
Bug Description
The autofs package depends on the portmap package being installed. However,
there is no dependency on portmap. Without the portmap package, mounts monitored
by autofs will not complete.
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| Adam Conrad (adconrad) wrote | #1 |
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| Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote | #2 |
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autofs Recommends nfs-common (which, in turn, depends on portmap). I
assume this wasn't set as a strict dependency because autofs can automount
just about any filesystem, and certainly wouldn't need portmap/nfs-common
to do so for anything other than NFS.
That said, a quick conversation with a few people led to the general
concensus that autofs really isn't often used for anything other than NFS,
and a dependency on nfs-common certainly doesn't seem too far out of line
for a package like this, so I'll upgrade the Recommends to a Depends for
the Ubuntu fork of the package.