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Re: Bug#510415: tech-ctte: Qmail inclusion (or not) in Debian



On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 08:05:50PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote:
> b. There are lots of issues why qmail doesn't look too competitive,
> like the static user ids,

I don't see any other mention of static user ids in this discussion.  Can
you explain what the problem is there?  Are these static IDs that have been
allocated in accordance with Debian Policy?

> ignorance of rfc 3464

This is one that I would like to see more discussion about; I've definitely
found qmail's non-standard DSNs irksome, looking like conversational emails
as they do.

>, unbundling of outgoing messages etc.

This is a good reason to not use qmail, but unlike the delayed bounce
problem I don't think it's critical.

> c. There are some (small) issues like that newaliases is provided by
> another package. However, any of these issues has an obvious
> resolution path, so they shouldn't be blocking.

What other issues besides the newaliases issue do you include here?

I think the newaliases policy violation should have also been listed as a
blocker for NEW inclusion, on the ballot.

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