Bug#402857: please document changes to installer handling of exim4

[Vincent McIntyre <Vince.McIntyre@atnf.csiro.au>]

Package: installation-guide

Hi,

in the installation guide, at
  http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch06s03.html

there is a discussion of "Configuring Your Mail Transport Agent" that
no longer reflects the debian installer (at least as of rc1 or later).

In the d-i tree the text is at
   trunk/manual/en/using-d-i/modules/pkgsel.xml


Instead of asking all installers these somewhat complex questions
about the type of mail transfer required, the installation program
no longer asks any questions at all about MTA setup[*].
What it does instead is automatically defaults to a 'local delivery'
setup, if you select the "standard system" item in tasksel.
(If you don't select "standard system", exim4 is not installed.)

[*] In the usual mode of installation.
    Questions might be asked if you set debconf/priority=low, but I
    have not tested this.

I'm not sure what form the patch should take.

I think the whole subsection should be moved to part of the manual,
maybe an appendix, since it is a little analogous to the complexities
of partitioning. It's also something you may want to go back to and
tweak once you have the basic system installed.


I think this change in the way the installer works should be noted in
the release notes as well. Could someone duplicate this bug and file
against release-notes?

see bug #401007 for an example of me tripping over this change.

Kind regards
Vince