On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 11:33:04PM +0200, Sune Vuorela wrote: > Noticing among others this bug report > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=322751 and observing the > many packages depending on $MTA | mail-transport-agent with $MTA having > values like postfix, exim, exim4, sendmail, nullmailer and probably others. > And some packages just depending on mail-transport-agent without providing a > preferred.
> The latter, just depending on mail-transport-agent, makes apt, at least > currently, pick the package first in the alphabet providing m-t-a. (A bit > ago, this was courier. now it is citadel). This definately needs fixing, but > why not sort everything out while we are at it? > I think something needs to be done somewhere. There is several solutions, > among others the following: > 1) Exim4 is currently the default installed MTA. So any package requiring a > MTA should depend on exim4 | mail-transport-agent. Defined by policy and all > packages should be fixed to this. > 2) Introduce a default-mta package (currently) depending on exim4. All > packages requiring a MTA should depend on default-mta | mail-transport-agent. > > This will have the extra advantage that we (and others like CDDs and derived > distros) easily could swap default MTA. I believe that 2) is the correct option, and can see no reason that it shouldn't be implemented straight away. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
