Re: smail

[Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr>]

On Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 01:36:27AM -0600, Barak Pearlmutter wrote:
> > > If i386 smail isn't included when potato releases, literally millions of
> > > boxes will be rather forcibly transitioned to a new MTA.
> >
> > No, they won't, they'll be left untouched. Or is there some kind of bug?
> 
> Good point, except ... if it doesn't have some kind of bug shouldn't
> it be included?

It had some serious bug, that's why it was removed.

> This isn't some kind of fluffy application that is easy for anyone to
> download and compile - it is a critical system utility, and it has to
> be carefully configured to work smoothly with the rest of Debian.

Unfortunately, there's nothing we can do right now, the freeze has come a
long way since. I doubt the release manager even think of disrupting our
testing cycle because of smail, unless a fixed version gets uploaded in the
next few days.

Not to mention the fact that there are several (apparently much better) MTAs
in Debian... not really comforting, but it's an alternative.

> On the other hand, its debian maintainer seems offline.

Which doesn't help, either :(

> Where is QA?

There is nothing the QA group can do to help, save marking the package as
orphaned (which I'm not suggesting to do without actual evidence of
maintainer being MIA).

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