[pkg-fetchmail-maint] Bug#586865: fetchmail: please suggest default-mta, not exim4

[Steve Langasek]

Package: fetchmail
Version: 6.3.16-1
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
User: ubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com
Usertags: origin-ubuntu maverick ubuntu-patch

Hi guys,

The attached patch from Ubuntu updates fetchmail to suggest default-mta as
the preferred MTA, instead of exim4.  'default-mta' is the virtual package
provided by exim4-daemon-light in Debian and postfix in Ubuntu, and may be
pointed to other implementations in future releases or on other derivatives.

This virtual package is not currently documented in policy, but has been
discussed on debian-devel over the past year and there is a pretty clear
consensus that this should be done.  This is obviously a low-priority issue
for fetchmail since fetchmail only declares a Suggests, which will never be
installed by default, but it would be nice if fetchmail set a good example
here.

It would also be appreciated if you could apply the patch from bug #498427
if and when you apply this one, as that would eliminate Ubuntu's delta on
the fetchmail package entirely and let the two distros be in sync again.

Cheers,
-- 
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/
slangasek at ubuntu.com                                     vorlon at debian.org
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=== modified file 'debian/control'
--- debian/control	2010-02-04 13:02:29 +0000
+++ debian/control	2010-06-22 21:34:33 +0000
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 Conflicts: fetchmail-common, logcheck (<< 1.1.1-9), fetchmail-ssl (<= 6.2.5-12)
 Replaces: fetchmail-common, fetchmail-ssl
 Provides: fetchmail-ssl
-Suggests: fetchmailconf, exim4 | mail-transport-agent, resolvconf
+Suggests: fetchmailconf, default-mta | mail-transport-agent, resolvconf
 Recommends: ca-certificates
 Description: SSL enabled POP3, APOP, IMAP mail gatherer/forwarder
  fetchmail is a free, full-featured, robust, and well-documented remote mail