Re: Sorting out mail-transport-agent mess
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 02:10:39AM +0200, Eugeniy Meshcheryakov wrote:
> 15 травня 2008 о 16:24 -0700 Steve Langasek написав(-ла):
> > > What concerns me about this approach is that it could easilly end up with
> > > dist-upgrades swapping out users mail systems without warning. I would
> > > consider such behaviour unacceptable as it could easilly cause mail loss
> >
> > Er, no, that wouldn't happen. As long as packages correctly depend on
> > default-mta | mail-transport-agent, this will have no impact on upgrades.
> >
> This can happen if user has 'default-mta' package installed, and it
> changes (if it is done like with 'gcc' package now).
What if default-mta itself depend on the current default (exim4) |
mail-transport-agent? Then future changes to default-mta would not
affect installed users.
ie:
Package: something-that-needs-an-mta
Depends: default-mta | mail-transport-agent
Package: default-mta
Depends: exim4-daemon-light | mail-transport-agent
Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>
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