Control: tags -1 - moreinfo On Mon, 2018-05-07 at 19:27 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > I looked at the original bug report from Paul Wise (cc'd) (#892144), and > the motivation was unclear to me. Were there packages in the archive that > depended on only one MTA and weren't MTA add-ons or otherwise > intentionally locked to just one MTA? IIRC the motivation at the time was that I had found another MTA related issue in the archive, filed a lintian bug about it, thought about other MTA issues that might exist and filed #892144 about that. > At first glance, the bug this tag is trying to diagnose seems unlikely to > me. I'm not sure how many maintainers intended to depend on a generic > mail-transport-agent and just picked one out of a hat (although I admit > the lack of documentation in Policy for how to declare this dependency > doesn't help). In contrast, add-ons for one specific MTA, or management > interfaces that only know how to configure one specific MTA, are fairly > common. I didn't go over every package in the archive before filing the issue, I think I might have wanted lintian.d.o to do that for me ;) > I just now checked, and the packages currently diagnosed with this > tag [1] are 100% false positives, which makes me wonder if this tag > should just be deleted. I haven't confirmed this, but if true, go ahead. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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