Bug#714634: lsb-core: Remove lsb-invalid-mta as a dependency of lsb-core; require an actual MTA instead

[Aaron Sowry <aeneby@gmail.com>]

Package: lsb-core
Version: 4.1+Debian8+deb7u1
Severity: important

Hi,

This bug report is a continuation of the following thread:

http://debian.2.n7.nabble.com/Questions-regarding-lsb-invalid-mta-td2980123.html

To summarize, lsb-invalid-mta does not fulfil the requirements of the LSB
specification, and as such should not be installed as a dependency of
lsb-core. Rather, an actual MTA should be installed, and the lsb-invalid-mta
package preferably removed from the Debian repositories altogether (as I understand
this was a downstream initiative, and does not appear to be appropriate
in Debain). For example, lsb-core could instead depend on "default-mta | mail-transport-agent".

Regards,
Aaron


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.1
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages lsb-core depends on:
ii  alien                                      8.87
ii  at                                         3.1.13-2
ii  bc                                         1.06.95-2+b1
ii  binutils                                   2.22-8
ii  bsd-mailx [mailx]                          8.1.2-0.20111106cvs-1
ii  bsdmainutils                               9.0.3
ii  bsdutils                                   1:2.20.1-5.3
ii  cpio                                       2.11+dfsg-0.1
ii  cron [cron-daemon]                         3.0pl1-124
ii  cups-bsd [lpr]                             1.5.3-5
ii  cups-client                                1.5.3-5
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]                      1.5.49
ii  ed                                         1.6-2
ii  exim4-daemon-light [mail-transport-agent]  4.80-7
ii  file                                       5.11-2
ii  lib32z1                                    1:1.2.7.dfsg-13
ii  libc6                                      2.13-38
ii  libc6-dev [libc-dev]                       2.13-38
ii  libc6-i386                                 2.13-38
ii  libncurses5                                5.9-10
ii  libpam0g                                   1.1.3-7.1
ii  locales                                    2.13-38
ii  lsb-base                                   4.1+Debian8+deb7u1
ii  lsb-release                                4.1+Debian8+deb7u1
ii  lsb-security                               4.1+Debian8+deb7u1
ii  m4                                         1.4.16-3
ii  make                                       3.81-8.2
ii  man-db                                     2.6.2-1
ii  mawk                                       1.3.3-17
ii  ncurses-term                               5.9-10
ii  passwd                                     1:4.1.5.1-1
ii  patch                                      2.6.1-3
ii  pax                                        1:20120606-2
ii  procps                                     1:3.3.3-3
ii  psmisc                                     22.19-1+deb7u1
ii  python                                     2.7.3-4
ii  rsync                                      3.0.9-4
ii  time                                       1.7-24
ii  zlib1g [libz1]                             1:1.2.7.dfsg-13

lsb-core recommends no packages.

lsb-core suggests no packages.

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