Bug#650137: exim4 package description - wrong focus in standard boilerplate?

Jonathan Nieder jrnieder at gmail.com
Sat Nov 26 22:35:38 UTC 2011


Martin Eberhard Schauer wrote:

>   There is a lot of Debian specific infrastructure: <perhaps some links>.
>   Please only write to the upstream exim-users mailing list if you are sure
>   that your question is not Debian-specific.

Unfortunately the note is addressed to the wrong person --- in a
large, multi-user installation (think "university"), the people who
would consider writing to the exim-users list are not the same people
as read the package description to decide whether to install it
anyway.

A quick note on the existence of "careful Debian-specific
configuration that might make the package unrecognizable to people who
know the software from elsewhere" or something along those lines might
help, though.  In theory, a pointer to the wiki page could also help
people decide whether to install the package, though in practice, the
page is too cluttered to help easily that way.





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