Bug#898136: lintian: Reduce depends-on-mail-transport-agent-without-alternatives to pedantic
Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> writes:
> On Mon, 2018-05-07 at 19:27 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> I just now checked, and the packages currently diagnosed with this
>> tag [1] are 100% false positives, which makes me wonder if this tag
>> should just be deleted.
> I haven't confirmed this, but if true, go ahead.
For the record, the methodology I used was to assume that all the packages
with a specific MTA in the package name were not generic. (Most of those
appear to be packages built by the same MTA source package, although a few
are plugins for specific MTAs.) I then looked at the descriptions of all
remaining packages. Each of them called out the specific MTA in their
description.
They all fell into two classes: either they were add-ons for a specific
MTA (mostly Postfix, although there was one exim4 add-on), or they were
virtual server managers or control panels or something similar that (per
the package description) could only configure specific MTAs (generally
Postfix).
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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