Bug#495844: package deviates from standard mail-transport-agent dependency.

[Benjamin Seidenberg]

severity 495844 minor
thanks



Andreas Henriksson wrote:
> Package: cyrus-common-2.2
> Severity: normal
>
> Hello!
>
> Your packag depends on postfix | mail-transport-agent. Exim (v4) is generally
> considered the default mta in Debian and is also the package providing
> mail-transport-agent which has the highest priority.
> Is there any particular reason why your package needs to deviate from
> which mta is pulled in by default? If not, could you please consider
> streamlining your package with the rest so we have a uniform behaviour in
> debian?
>
>   
I'm guessing that postfix is there for hysterical raisins. I do know 
that everybody on the packaging team does use postfix so that may be it.

I really think this bug doesn't matter as Cyrus is a mail server, and 
needs the MTA to be configured. I find it extremely unlikely that anyone 
running a mail server is just going to use whatever installing Cyrus 
brings in. Since the admin is going to manually install one and the  "| 
m-t-a" is there, I don't think this is really a bug, but I'm just going 
to knock the severity down until others have a chance to comment. 
(really, I think it should be wishlist, but I'll compromise with you and 
drop it to minor).


Benjamin