On Jul 21, Dima wrote > >>Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: > > >A related question: is there any chance of getting a Debianized > >distribution of qmail in the near future? A mere source could do. > > You can use a non-debianized version: the only difference is that > Debian already have qmail users and groups in /etc/passwd & /etc/group > so you'll need to skip most of INSTALL.ids part of qmail setup. > And you'll need to write a startup script. That's not the hard part. I had once installed qmail on my late Slackware system, so I know the procedure. However, how can I tell the Debian packaging system that I have an undebianized MTA? Many Debian packages depend on a message transfer agent, and just removing smail in favour of undebianized qmail will generate _lots_ of dependency problems. > >I know that there is qmail in project/experimental (at least my mirror > >has it), but I'd rather not use alpha software -- and I think I would > >be violating Dan's copyright if I were to use the experimental > >package, wouldn't I? > > I don't know about the copyright, or why using debianized qmail-1.0 > in experimental would be different from using non-debianized qmail-1.0 > wrt copy rites. BTW, there's qmail 1.01. qmail-1.0 is old. All binary distributions of qmail must be authorized. The same goes to modified source distributions. I am assuming that this is one reason for the fact that qmail is in experimental rather than in non-free. > I'm using it, and I've been using non-debianized qmail > before Christian packaged it, and they haven't arrested me (yet). :) None of my acquaintances and friends who use pirated MS software have been arrested. Antti-Juhani
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