Bug#510415: tech-ctte: Qmail inclusion (or not) in Debian
On Tue, 06 Jan 2009, Kalle Kivimaa wrote:
> 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.
I agree that Qmail has lots of bugs some of which are critical for the
health of the internet at large, and I think it needs a period in
experimental to get those bugs resolved.
That said, the serious problems that it has are problems that are
present in the qmail-src packages, IIUC. The ideal end state is a
Qmail package that resolves all of these problems, and it'd be better
to have such a package than our current state.
> 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.
I agree with the arguments about the problems with the package; I'm
just slightly concerned about the method with which they are dealt
with.
> Actually, I *am* a fan of Qmail, but I think it is outdated in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.
I agree as well; that said, if someone in Debian wants to put in the
work to make Qmail have more pros than cons so those people who are
going to run Qmail anyway can do so without bothering the rest of us,
more power to htem.
Don Armstrong
--
If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its
freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money it
values more, it will lose that, too.
-- W. Somerset Maugham
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