Bug#397042: exim4: missing manpage for /etc/aliases

Andreas Metzler ametzler at downhill.at.eu.org
Sat Nov 4 18:41:52 CET 2006


On 2006-11-04 Osamu Aoki <osamu at debian.org> wrote:
> Package: exim4
> Version: 4.63-9
> Severity: wishlist

> While sendmail comes with aliases manpage, exim doesnot come with it.

> At lease it assumes everyone knows about its structure wnen special
> limitation is discussed in README.Debian.  

> Since exim4 and sendmail conflict each other, why not take man page for
> aliases from sendmail and add pipe limitation and put it into exim4.
> BSD->GPL is OK, I think.
[...]

exim4-base (which is where the manpage would be added does not
and should not conflict with sendmail or postfix), we could do it like
sendmail and add usr/share/man/man5/aliases.exim.5.gz
cu and- this used to be part of the manpages package iirc -reas
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