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Re: [mass bug filing] still depending on exim instead of exim4



Am Mit, 2004-01-14 um 11.23 schrieb Marc Haber:
> On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 10:55:08 +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen
> <pere@hungry.com> wrote:
> >[Marc Haber]
> >> we still have about 50 packages in the archive that have exim (not
> >> exim4) in their Depends/Recommends/Suggests field. Since exim 3 is no
> >> longer supported upstream, and exim 4 is the default MTA for sarge, I
> >> intend to file wishlist bugs against these packages asking to depend
> >> on exim 4 instead of exim 3.
> >
> >Why not just change exim4 to provide "exim"?
> 
> Because exim 4 is not a drop-in replacement for exim 3. It uses a
> different configuration file format that cannot be converted in an
> easy way.
>

Why dont develop a script wich is converting the exim3conf to an usable
exim4config and haveing this in the postinstallscript?
or is exim4 so different that this is absolutely impossible?

Regards
Daniel

 
> Greetings
> Marc
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