Re: qmail and related packages in NEW
On 2008-11-29, Joerg Jaspert <joerg@debian.org> wrote:
>
>>> It isn't just about choosing not to install it, it causes work for the
>>> various teams in Debian - security, release, QA.=20
>> We've discussed this at the Security Team meeting in Essen and we don't
>> have a problem with qmail being included in Lenny.
>
> Are you aware that qmail and its related packages do have a LOT of code
> duplication? Someone tried to reinvent a libc or something, and just
> copies it into every package. One bug means fixing all those packages at
> once.
Which? AFAICS it has some portability layers and you typically need daemontools
for djbware, but I don't see any horrible code copies.
Cheers,
Moritz
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