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Re: buildd and crypto & us (the next chapter)



Can we stop sending messages to multiple lists? Choosing one and cc'ing
or bcc'ing the other so people know where discussion's taking place, sure,
but... Trimmed to -devel.

On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 11:29:53AM -0400, Richard A Nelson wrote:
> Suppose I split sendmail into two pieces (built from the same source pkg)
>    1) sendmail(us)         whole enchilada (sans TLS support)
>    2) sendmail-tls(non-us) only new sendmail binary & postinst supporting TLS

This is exceedingly awkward. In short, just say no.

What having a binary in a different component to a source means is
that dinstall loses all ties between the source and the binary, so the
ftpmasters would have to do any manipulation of the package by hand.
I say "would have to", because AIUI, they get around this problem by not
allowing source packages to have mixed binaries like that.

Instead, either make two source packages: sendmail and sendmail-tls,
each building only one binary; or make one source package that builds
both binaries and uploads them both to non-us. Or, just build one binary,
sendmail, with the TLS support and upload it to non-us.

Cheers,
aj

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