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

[JohnWashington]

Presumably this is why I've just encountered the following problem on
10.10 today?  Thanks for your report Todd.

root at ion:~# lsb_release
No LSB modules are available.
root at ion:~# aptitude install lsb
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  alien{a} bsd-mailx{a} debhelper{a} gettext{a} html2text{a} intltool-debian{a} libmail-sendmail-perl{a} libqt3-mt{a} libqt4-gui{a} 
  libqt4-sql-sqlite{a} librpm1{a} librpmbuild1{a} librpmio1{a} libsys-hostname-long-perl{a} libunistring0{a} lsb lsb-core{a} lsb-cxx{a} 
  lsb-desktop{a} lsb-graphics{a} lsb-printing{a} m4{a} ncurses-term{a} pax{a} po-debconf{a} rpm{a} rpm-common{a} rpm2cpio{a} 
0 packages upgraded, 28 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 11.7MB of archives. After unpacking 30.8MB will be used.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  nullmailer: Conflicts: lsb but 4.0-0ubuntu8 is to be installed.
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

     Keep the following packages at their current version:
1)     lsb [Not Installed]                                


Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] q
Abandoning all efforts to resolve these dependencies.
Abort.
root at ion:~#

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Title:
  nullmailer should not directly conflict with lsb

Status in “nullmailer” package in Ubuntu:
  New

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).