[Bug 660089] Re: nullmailer should not directly conflict with lsb

Nick Leverton nick at leverton.org
Mon Apr 4 12:44:59 UTC 2011


Hi,

Just dropping in - I'm the intending new Debian maintainer for
nullmailer and I'd be open to reviewing the decision on dbug:271662 (
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=271662 )

It still seems to be the case, however, that the -bs option for SMTP
mail submission is mandated by LSB.  Nullmailer doesn't do it by design,
so the conflict is genuine and not likely to go away without some work.
It may be possible to split the package so that only the part with
/usr/lib/sendmail has the LSB conflict, or to find some lesser part of
the LSB that we can conflict or conform with - I'll investigate this
aspect once I've got my adoption upload done. Alternatively perhaps
someone who wants LSB compliance could write a patch to implement -bs
and solve the problem ?  Please followup on the Debian BTS if you can,
thanks.

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Title:
  nullmailer should not directly conflict with lsb

Status in “nullmailer” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “nullmailer” package in Debian:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: nullmailer

  Yes, we know that the full LSB spec specifies that "-bs" be provided
  by the sendmail frontend. However, this interface is not supplied by
  ssmtp, nor is it supplied by the default lsb-invalid-mta (of course).
  I don't see why [only] nullmailer should have an explicit exclude
  entry against the simple "lsb" metapackage, contrary to what the
  Debian maintainers thought in 2004.

  If this is really the desired conflict behavior, though, there's still
  a change required (the inverse: add the conflict to ssmtp).



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