Control: tags -1 +moreinfo Hi Aaron, and thanks for your bugreport,
Le lundi, 1 juillet 2013 14.54:35, Aaron Sowry a écrit : > This bug report is a continuation of the following thread: > > http://debian.2.n7.nabble.com/Questions-regarding-lsb-invalid-mta-td2 > 980123.html > > To summarize, lsb-invalid-mta does not fulfil the requirements of the > LSB specification, and as such should not be installed as a > dependency of lsb-core. I think the summary is not the above statement, but that your _opinion_ is that lsb-invalid-mta does not fulfil the requirements of the LSB specification. I don't agree, fwiw. Can you point to a specific LSB requirement not fulfilled by lsb-invalid-mta, please? * [15.1] wants the sendmail command, it's there. * [15.2-sendmail] describes the sendmail command, all options of which are supported by lsb-invalid-mta's sendmail. A valid point would be that the sendmail command setup by lsb-invalid-mta is not working properly (as it always errors out). I would tag such a bug as +wontfix as the purpose of lsb-invalid-mta is well explained by its name. [15.1] http://refspecs.linuxbase.org/LSB_4.1.0/LSB-Core-generic/LSB- Core-generic/command.html#CMDUTIL [15.2] http://refspecs.linuxbase.org/LSB_4.1.0/LSB-Core-generic/LSB- Core-generic/baselib-sendmail-1.html > Rather, an actual MTA should be installed, That's not what the LSB requires; It requires a valid sendmail command. > and the lsb-invalid-mta package preferably removed from the Debian > repositories altogether (as I understand this was a downstream > initiative, and does not appear to be appropriate in Debain). I don't see the existance of lsb-invalid-mta as a problem, why should it be removed? I think it _is_ useful for some users of the lsb-* packages and therefore don't understand why we should take it off them. > example, lsb-core could instead depend on "default-mta | > mail-transport-agent". That's probably where I'd be open to changes: making lsb-core depend on "default-mta | mail-transport-agent" on Debian (and still lsb-invalid- mta | mail-transport-agent" on Ubuntu) might be a worthwhile change. That said, we released Wheezy with both lsb-invalid-mta and the dependency on it from lsb-core so we would need to respect the choice of admins that actually _want_ a non-working sendmail in their lsb dependencies across upgrades. Cheers, OdyX -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org