Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > I'm amazed that it hasn't crossed anyone's mind that the LSB mind be > hopelessly backward thinking, when it expects sendmail to be present > upon every system. In honesty, too many of the LSB specification's > elements point to a fixed-IP network built of traditional UNIX hosts. > That paradigm hasn't been anywhere close to representing real life > Internet usage of average Joe Buntu desktop user or of other non-server > Linux usage cases for a long time.
The sendmail spec in the LSB is an interface: nothing more. It does not have to be a full MTA any more than, say, printf(3) must be a kernel interface. We have shopped around the idea of dropping sendmail, and met with strong opposition from many of our ISVs. People rely on sendmail being there today. If Ubuntu is not happy with postfix as their default implementation of the sendmail interface, we invite them to choose a lightweight alternative. I believe several are even provided in Ubuntu already; they certainly are provided in Debian, and could easily be pulled in. I have personally had good luck with ssmtp; although it requires some configuration, the burden is not nearly as high as with postfix. Alternatively, you're free to explore a better standard interface for sending mail than sendmail, and getting ISVs on board with it. Apart from our deprecation policy, we're not married to the specific sendmail interface. As long as ISVs are happy with the functionality they're provided, we can change it. -- installing lsb requires postfix https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/141641 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs