ubuntu-standard is dependant on rsync installed, most end users do not use, rsync properly does not run but shows a checked entry in system>administration>services that may confuse users.

Bug #353241 reported by Josh K
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rsync (Ubuntu)
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Wishlist
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Bug Description

This is not a critical or important bug. However, it is worth fixing, please.
#1 ubuntu jaunty testing installs an rsync package as part of ubuntu-standard.
#2 the services program shows a checked, hence "running" entry.
#3 removing this 112kb package also removes ubuntu-standard.

For the sake of simplicity, ease of use, and straight-forward development,
This package should be:

At minimum, the services panel, the entry should be shown as un-checked.

On full distro release, many may make re-builds customizing their own ubuntu flavor, and may NOT want this package, but may wish to maintain ubuntu-standard since using normal repos and normal updating methods.

Best situation is to remove the dependency on ubuntu, and optionally, simply for convenience , remove the rsync package from the final release builds of ubuntu.

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Andreas Olsson (andol) wrote :

From the package description of ubuntu-standard:

  "This set of packages provides a comfortable command-line Unix-like environment."

I would say that having rsync available fits rather well with that description.

Regarding wanting to customizing your own flavors, but without rsync, any particular reason why that case is worse than with any of the other packages that ubuntu-standard depends on?

Yes, I can see it as being far from intuitive that the rsyncd service seems to be running by default, but is actually being controlled by /etc/default/rsync.

Changed in rsync (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
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