Re: RFC: dma -- the DragonFly Mail Agent
On Monday 30 March 2009 17:23:48 Peter Pentchev wrote:
> Dear mentors,
Hello Peter,
> This is not even an RFS :)
>
> Now, seriously - I've prepared a package for dma, the DragonFly Mail
> Agent, as ITP'd in my #511410, I've uploaded it to mentors.d.n, and
> I've sent out a request for debconf translations. The call for
> translations should hit the -i18n list in a couple of minutes, and
> there's a ten-day timeout on it.
>
> Still, if any of you could find the time to take a look at the dma
> package itself and tell me if I've done anything horribly wrong,
I had a look at it and found nothing horribly wrong, though packaging MTA is
not that trivial, no matter how lightweight it is.
The one that grabbed my attention is the large list of patches applied to the
upstream code (if we don't take into account the debian-specific ones
0x-debian-*). Some of them are also hunk'ing, but you can fix that.
> I'd be very grateful :)
>
> * Package name : dma
> Version : 0.0.2009.01.10
> Upstream Author : Matthias Schmidt <matthias@dragonflybsd.org>,
> Simon Schubert <corecode@dragonflybsd.org>
> * URL : http://www.dragonflybsd.org/
> * License : BSD
> Programming Lang: C
> Description : the DragonFly Mail Agent, a lightweight MTA
>
> It builds these binary packages:
> dma - the DragonFly Mail Agent, a lightweight MTA
>
> The package has been tested with lintian and pbuilder.
>
> The upload would fix these bugs: 511410
>
> The package can be found on mentors.debian.net:
> http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/d/dma/dma_0.0.2009.02.11-1.dsc
>
> Note: the dma sources themselves are NOT available for direct
> download from http://www.dragonflybsd.org/. I've made the tarball
> from a git checkout as of, well, 2009/01/10 :) The only change
> since then has been a raised C compiler warnings level.
I also had a look at the FreeBSD port of dma [1] and it doesn't seem to be so
heavily patched. So, it seems like either your colleague is missing something
or you are just taking the chance to develop in debian/patches/ ;-) ... hence
communicating and consulting your changes upstream would bring these
improvements to more users and developers.
Otherwise the packaging looks solid, but then again I'm not an MTA wizard ;-)
[1] http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/mail/dma/
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