Package: project Version: N/A; reported 2002-08-27 Severity: serious Justification: violates Social Contract 1, 4, and 5 (maybe others) The subject says it all. qmail is installed on murphy.debian.org. qmail is non-free. Debian should not be using non-free software on its own systems. I will quote from the Social Contract to show why this is so. "Debian Will Remain 100% Free Software" is very clear, I think. "[W]e will never make the system depend on an item of non-free software." Your systems are depending on items of non-free software. The default mail-transport-agent for installation is exim, and that is what most other machines run, but not murphy. "Thus, although non-free software isn't a part of Debian, we support its use, and we provide infrastructure (such as our bug-tracking system and mailing lists) for non-free software packages." I think the "support" you meant here was "provide quality assurance for" not "endorse". I think running qmail is the latter. Also, note that "non-free software isn't a part of Debian". So it should not be on your machines. "We will be guided by the needs of our users and the free-software community. We will place their interests first in our priorities." I'm sorry, but it does not seem like you have the interests of the free-software community first by running qmail. I have included two telnet sessions: one is with murphy, and one is with a friend's machine, which is also a Debian machine running qmail. The dead giveaway is that even with an EHLO, qmail is silent about the software which is running. Transaction with murphy.debian.org: bmc@stonewall:~$ telnet murphy.debian.org 25 Trying 65.125.64.134... Connected to murphy.debian.org. Escape character is '^]'. ehlo stonewall 220 murphy.debian.org ESMTP 250-murphy.debian.org 250-PIPELINING 250 8BITMIME rset 250 flushed quit 221 murphy.debian.org Connection closed by foreign host. Transaction with decoy.wox.org: mc@stonewall:~$ telnet decoy.wox.org 25 Trying 206.180.155.20... Connected to 206.180.155.20.adsl.hal-pc.org. Escape character is '^]'. 220 decoy.wox.org ESMTP ehlo stonewall 250-decoy.wox.org 250-PIPELINING 250 8BITMIME rset 250 flushed quit 221 decoy.wox.org Connection closed by foreign host. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux stonewall 2.4.18-k7 #1 Sun Apr 14 13:19:11 EST 2002 i686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (ignored: LC_ALL set) -- no debconf information -- Brian M. Carlson <karlsson@hal-pc.org> <http://decoy.wox.org/~bmc> 0x560553E7 "If John Madden steps outside on February 2, looks down, and doesn't see his feet, we'll have 6 more weeks of Pro football." -- Chuck Newcombe
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