[pkg-fetchmail-maint] Bug#586864: Bug#586864: fetchmail: please suggest default-mta, not exim4

Nico Golde nion at debian.org
Wed Jun 23 10:24:11 UTC 2010


Hi,
* Steve Langasek <steve.langasek at ubuntu.com> [2010-06-23 12:08]:
> 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.
[...] 
Thank you very much for the feedback and the patch (also the one for #586866).
I'll upload new packages soon and will make sure to include these patches.

Kind regards
Nico
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