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Re: Bug#457318: ITP: qmail -- a secure, reliable, efficient, simple message transfer
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| Andreas Metzler 2007-12-25, 7:20 pm |
| Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 23, 2007 at 05:54:32PM +0000, Turbo Fredriksson wrote:
[vbcol=seagreen]
> Well I see points where we have to ask if we _should_ support some
> kind of software, some questions we could ask is:
> * is it possible to provide a sane default qmail configuration (the
> basic 4 that exim and postfix provides in Debian seems to be a
> minimum) ;
I do not think that is really necessary. I doubt there are lots of new
qmail installations nowadays by people that are not aready well versed
in its configuration.
> * does it supports ipv6 (non ipv6 ready software that isn't ipv4 ready
> should not _enter_ Debian nowadays) ;
> * what does it brings wrt its alternatives to Debian, why is it better
> that the exim, postfix or sendmail Debian already has.
If we think it is popular enough to ship in non-free, why not in main?
qmail propably still has a considerable user base, not requiring them
to /unnecessarily/ go the 'apt-get build' way seems to be a good thing.
OTOH if qmail afficionados won't use the package anyway since it will
be quite a bit different from upstream's default (FHS, not-using
non-main DJB software ucspi-tcp and daemontools.) there is not much
point.
cu andreas
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