Re: Bug#508644: new release goal default-mta? (was: stable-p-u: mdadm 2.6.7.2-2)
On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 05:06:26PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Carsten Hey <carsten@debian.org> [2009.05.05.1645 +0200]:
> > Depending on default-mta | mta in a upload to s-p-u does not fix
> > anything since there is no default-mta in stable. This would possibly
> > even break pinning in unexpected ways for users with stable and testing
> > in their source.list. Thus please consider depending on exim4 | mta or
> > postfix | mta in your upload to s-p-u and changing the dependency as
> > discussed for your next upload to sid.
> Of course.
> sid: http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-mdadm/mdadm.git;a=commitdiff;h=93eecf12c706c1c01f1d0a8c45c20639ca8afe3f
> spu: http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-mdadm/mdadm.git;a=commitdiff;h=541c07a775104848ed99e2cb5935496c8718807a
> I cannot leave it at postfix|mta apparently, because that's frowned
> upon (although the policy does not back up this complaint).
> FWIW, Ubuntu did what I consider the right thing:
> http://launchpadlibrarian.net/21235281/mdadm_2.6.7.1-1ubuntu4_2.6.7.1-1ubuntu5.diff.gz
Well, this is the right thing in Ubuntu because postfix is the default MTA
for Ubuntu. In Debian, this is not the case, so mdadm recommending postfix
by preference causes inconsistent behavior depending on the order in which
the user installs packages.
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