Bug#650137: exim4 package description - wrong focus in standard boilerplate?
Jonathan Nieder
jrnieder at gmail.com
Sun Nov 27 02:36:07 UTC 2011
Justin B Rye wrote:
> My own tentative suggestion for the whole thing would be something
> along these lines:
Better. But it can be shortened even further, by observing:
- since this is a Debian package, the usual place to look for
documentation would be /usr/share/doc/exim4/README.Debian. And
that works.
- since this is a Debian package, the usual way to report bugs
is to look at /usr/share/doc/exim4/README.Debian first. And
that works, though maybe the warning
1.2. Getting Support
For your questions and comments, there is a
[2]Debian-specific mailing list. Please ask Debian-specific
questions there, and only write to the upstream exim-users
mailing list if you are sure that your question is not
Debian-specific.
should be more prominent.
So we can write:
Description: flexible mail transport agent - metapackage
Exim (v4) is a mail transport agent with a great deal of flexibility
in the way mail can be routed, and extensive facilities for checking
incoming mail. Comprehensive upstream documentation is included.
.
Many configuration details are Debian-specific, as described at
<http://wiki.debian.org/PkgExim4UserFAQ>.
.
This metapackage depends on the essential components for a basic
installation of Exim 4.
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