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

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, Andreas Henriksson wrote:
> I see your problem, but on the other hand I don't think the current dep
> expresses it correctly. For anyone who already has an mta installed (which
> is a pretty high risk) the postfix | m-t-a will not do anything like
> you wish for.

If someone already installed a MTA and configured it, it will be satisfied.
If cyrus is selected on the first apt run, it will pull in postfix instead
of exim4.

That's good enough, and there is NO problem here to fix.

> are the user will actually end up with a configuration you guys support
> even if they have a previous mta installed.

We don't recommend postfix.  We need a MTA, and if you don't have one, we
would prefer it to be postfix, because you're likely going to ask us about
it.  That's it.  And what we currently have does exactly that.

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