Re: Bug#510415: tech-ctte: Qmail inclusion (or not) in Debian
Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> writes:
> I'm particularly uneasy with letting the ftpmasters decide
> what's acceptable in the Debian archive on some non-usual policy
> requirements that can be difficult to justify.
Well, I personally am against the Qmail in Debian at it's current
state because I consider it to have at least one critical security bug
and several other RC bugs, and I don't see how to solve the critical
bug without a serious rewrite. If somebody manages to solve those bugs
(and fix the other policy issues), then I'd have much less incentive
to reject Qmail.
I don't see the arguments we've made as difficult to justify. If we
felt that we couldn't justify them, we wouldn't have made them in the
first place and grudginly accepted the package.
>> As much as I'm not a fan of Qmail, I don't think the project should
> Agreed. Same here.
Actually, I *am* a fan of Qmail, but I think it is outdated in today's
internet, and anybody considering to use it as a MTA should think very
hard of the pros and cons.
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