Re: [mass bug filing] still depending on exim instead of exim4
On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 10:55:08 +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen
<pere@hungry.com> wrote:
>[Marc Haber]
>> we still have about 50 packages in the archive that have exim (not
>> exim4) in their Depends/Recommends/Suggests field. Since exim 3 is no
>> longer supported upstream, and exim 4 is the default MTA for sarge, I
>> intend to file wishlist bugs against these packages asking to depend
>> on exim 4 instead of exim 3.
>
>Why not just change exim4 to provide "exim"?
Because exim 4 is not a drop-in replacement for exim 3. It uses a
different configuration file format that cannot be converted in an
easy way.
Greetings
Marc
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