Bug#714634: lsb-core: Remove lsb-invalid-mta as a dependency of lsb-core; require an actual MTA instead

["Didier 'OdyX' Raboud" <odyx@debian.org>]

Hi,

Le lundi, 8 juillet 2013 09.38:21, Aaron Sowry a écrit :
> > BTW, if you feel strongly about this, I'd encourage you to file the
> > appropriate bugs and have this discussion over there.  No one here
> > needs convincing, I think, that lsb-invalid-mta is a bad idea.
> 
> I do feel strongly about this, as the outcome of this discussion will
> determine whether or not the LSB is something we can refer to when
> designing applications which need to work across distributions. I
> obviously can't argue that lsb-invalid-mta *is* in violation of the
> LSB, but I would like to argue that it *should* be.

Please note that the default-mta as shipped by Debian (exim4) in its 
default configuration is not sending mails "to the internet" at all. If 
your LSB-based assumption is that you can invoke sendmail to send mails 
to anyone, then it is not fulfilled by default-mta either.

So, taking a step back, sendmail, as currently shipped by default-mta, 
only ensures that mails are sent to local users. In that context, I see 
many uses for a sendmail erroring out instead of an working sendmail 
piling mails in local mboxes never read by anyone.

(But I wrote I wouldn't stand in the way, hereby shutting up. :-p )

Cheers,
OdyX