These bug reports should probably all be closed without any action, but
I'll leave it up to the maintainers in question. A few already have
done the right thing.
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From: Steve Langasek <vorlon at debian.org>
Subject: Re: package deviates from standard mail-transport-agent dependency.
To: Peter Palfrader <weasel at debian.org>,
Andreas Henriksson <andreas at fatal.se>,
debian-devel at lists.debian.org
Cc: 495853 at bugs.debian.org
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:37:38 -0700
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On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 09:29:35AM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?submitter=andreas%40fatal.se
> > Your packag depends on postfix | mail-transport-agent. Exim (v4) is generally
> > considered the default mta in Debian and is also the package providing
> > mail-transport-agent which has the highest priority.
> > Is there any particular reason why your package needs to deviate from
> > which mta is pulled in by default? If not, could you please consider
> > streamlining your package with the rest so we have a uniform behaviour in
> > debian?
> Where did you discuss this mass filing of (useless) bugs before you
> submitted them?
In particular, these bugs are *contrary* to the developing consensus in the
thread at http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/05/msg00381.html ff.
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