also sprach Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> [2009.05.04.1057 +0200]:
> > If exim4 is installed, then the alternative is never used. If
> > people don't like postfix being pulled in by mdadm, they can
> > choose another MTA, including exim4. This is an improvement over
> > the current situation, which might pull in citadel-server
> > instead.
>
> A better improvement would be to have the same defaults as the
> rest of the distribution.
Sure.
> The appropriate change would be to create a default-mta virtual
> package that is always provided by only one MTA at a time, so you
> might want to work on this solution instead of breaking important
> packages.
I will look into this; Holger just pointed it out to me.
I'll also provide an updated mdadm package, but I'll wait a few days
in case there are other issues.
Finally I'll note that I didn't do anything like "breaking important
packages".
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