On 13590 March 1977, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > I had hoped that the debconf questions would mean you are only asked > once (an annoyance yes, but just a small one) but you and others are > reporting that you get asked multiple times. I can see that that would > be very annoying. So given the amount of heartache this thing is > giving our users, I am now inclined to get rid of the cert creation > stuff altogether. The only thing that gives me pause is what dkg wrote > in #608719. If this is a valid concern, then as it is our (ok my :-) > fault the cert is was in the wrong place, would merely documenting the > need for a move in README.Debian be sufficient in your opinion?
There is only a need for a move if the cert ever was not one the user generated on his own, and knowingly put into the place now deemed bad. But yes, documenting this in README/NEWS.Debian is better than the current situation. > In general, with all the government and corporate spying going on I > would like our mail packages to be as secure as possible out of the > box. I'm with you there. > After all that's why I for one am running my own mail server rather > than just using gmail etc. But if it is too difficult to do cert > handling correctly and to everyones satisfaction than yes lets remove > it. You will never ever be able to do it to everyones satisfaction. *I* never said it is bad to do cert handling, or that the current way of that in dovecot is bad. I haven't analyzed that, can't say anything about it. I've never used it either, I always used my own stuff. What I said is that the repeated nagging is bad. If the admin has clearly taken a decision then thats to be respected, even if someone might think it bad, unless it would break the package. Which dovecot currently doesn't. It forcefully resets itself to ask again. Thats what I say is bad. -- bye, Joerg [GFDL] Well, Debian is not for newbies so the documentation problem is not really huge -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
