Re: ITP vexim
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- Subject: Re: ITP vexim
- From: Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>
- Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 17:40:00 +0100
- Message-id: <[🔎] 86ek2v0wpr.fsf@alhambra.kuesterei.ch>
- In-reply-to: <20060126141127.024df358@localhost> (Daniel Knabl's message of "Thu, 26 Jan 2006 14:11:27 +0100")
- References: <PmlRLl0I.1137946965.9310740.daniel@aio4u.com> <20060122194459.GB14740@andromeda> <20060123001625.15bbd1bb@localhost> <E1F0w61-00083b-TZ@scyw00225.scy001.de> <87r76zyylk.fsf@nahar.marcbrockschmidt.de> <20060126141127.024df358@localhost>
Daniel Knabl <daniel@tirolinux.net> wrote:
>>* Instead of setting an insecure default password and warning the admin
>> about it, you could like ... ask for a secure password with debconf.
>
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2006/01/msg00418.html
>
> To explain: this is not the password for the mysql user, instead it is
> the password for the "virtual" siteadmin (inside vexim). Please see
> next part.
If it is a password, it shouldn't be insecure. Even for a virtual
admin.
>>* postinst is sometimes called with other values (*not* only
>> configure). Though these are perfectly OK, your postinst script will
>> fail.
>
> Could you describe what you exactly think about? (so that I can imagine
> what would happen ... and learn from this)
file:///usr/share/doc/debian-policy/policy.html/ch-maintainerscripts.html#s-mscriptsinstact
Regards, Frank
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Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)
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