Bug#415247: exim4 and exim4-debian maintainers too stupid and irresponsible

[Adam D. Barratt]

On Sat, 2007-03-17 at 13:12 +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> Package: exim4
> Version: 4.24-3

You do realise that the version quoted above is nearly three and a half
years old? It's even eight upstream releases older than the version in
sarge.

> this bug is in response to several bug reports which i have raised
> regarding exim4, which are all to do with improving exim4.  each and
> every such bug has been treated with derision.

As far as I can see, you've submitted two bug reports against the Debian
exim4 packages in the past four years, both asking for a change to the
default configuration which the maintainers disagreed with. That is
their prerogative and there are established procedures which exist if
you believe you have a good case to get a technical decision overturned.

Your public interaction with upstream appears to consist of a single
thread on exim-users in February, in which you claimed exim was broken
because it allowed an empty envelope sender to be used - a feature of
SMTP for which support has been required since at least 1982 and without
which no-one would ever be able to receive bounces.

In my opinion, this bug should be closed, but I'll leave that decision
to the maintainers.

Regards,

Adam