On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Christoph Martin wrote:

> Package: sendmail
> Version: 8.13.4-1
> Severity: important
>
> /etc/services from netbase from woody does not contain the submission
> service. This version of sendmail needs the entry. If you install the
> sarge version of sendmail on a woody system you get the error:
>
> /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 270: service "submission" unknown: No such
> file or directory
>
> sendmail will not start. The package should depend on a newer version of
> netbase.

Damn...
sendmail (8.13.3-7) unstable; urgency=high
  * Depends netbase (>= 4.0.8) for submission         closes: #295132
 -- Richard A Nelson (Rick) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  Thu, 10 Feb 2005 19:02:00 -0000

That depend line is actually on sendmail-base:
Depends: m4, make, adduser, netbase (>= 4.0.8), ${perl:Depends}

> Versions of packages sendmail depends on:
> ii  rmail                         8.13.4-1   MTA->UUCP remote mail handler
> ii  sendmail-base                 8.13.4-1   powerful, efficient, and scalable
> ii  sendmail-bin                  8.13.4-1   powerful, efficient, and scalable
> ii  sendmail-cf                   8.13.4-1   powerful, efficient, and scalable
> ii  sensible-mda                  8.13.4-1   Mail Delivery Agent wrapper

So, how did you get sendmail-base installed, without also installing
a more recent version of netbase ?

What version of netbase do you have?  Maybe I misparsed the changelog
and the submission port didn't make it in until later ?

-- 
Rick Nelson
<xinkeT> "Lord grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot
         change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom
         to hide the bodies of the people I had to kill because they
         pissed me off."


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