Re: [OT] Debian Policy (was Re: [Mimedefang] Re: Quarantine location)

2005-08-29 Thread Steffen Kaiser
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, David F. Skoll wrote: The sendmail package of Debian is a bit odd, I agree, but an upgrade within the various sarge/testing variants never broke my installation, except that sendmailconfig insists of putting procmail into /etc/mail/smrsh. However, what would be the way to

RE: [OT] Debian Policy (was Re: [Mimedefang] Re: Quarantine location)

2005-08-29 Thread Michael Sims
Steffen Kaiser wrote: However, what would be the way to intelligently handle sendmail's .m4 conf script, without to disable lots of functionality? I'm not expert in this sort of thing, but I would have expected for the package to provide a sane default sendmail.mc and submit.mc, along with a

Re: [OT] Debian Policy (was Re: [Mimedefang] Re: Quarantine location)

2005-08-26 Thread Gordon Henderson
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, David F. Skoll wrote: Kris Deugau wrote: Maybe, maybe not. Debian package maintainers seem to delight in Doing Things Differently for a lot of packages, but maybe that's just my background learning all of the RedHat-isms first. g Tell me about it! Two of the

Re: [OT] Debian Policy (was Re: [Mimedefang] Re: Quarantine location)

2005-08-26 Thread David F. Skoll
Gordon Henderson wrote: So what I do and just use Debian as a bootstrap mechanism - put sendmail on hold once it's installed, then just compile up a standard sendmail, mimedefang, SA, *sql, apache, php, etc. rather than use the packages. Well, we sell Debian-based e-mail filtering appliances,

RE: [OT] Debian Policy (was Re: [Mimedefang] Re: Quarantine location)

2005-08-26 Thread Michael Sims
David F. Skoll wrote: Kris Deugau wrote: Maybe, maybe not. Debian package maintainers seem to delight in Doing Things Differently for a lot of packages, but maybe that's just my background learning all of the RedHat-isms first. g Tell me about it! Two of the pieces of software we rely on