Hi, * Steve Langasek <steve.langa...@ubuntu.com> [2010-06-23 12:08]: > The attached patch from Ubuntu updates fetchmail to suggest default-mta as > the preferred MTA, instead of exim4. 'default-mta' is the virtual package > provided by exim4-daemon-light in Debian and postfix in Ubuntu, and may be > pointed to other implementations in future releases or on other derivatives. > > This virtual package is not currently documented in policy, but has been > discussed on debian-devel over the past year and there is a pretty clear > consensus that this should be done. This is obviously a low-priority issue > for fetchmail since fetchmail only declares a Suggests, which will never be > installed by default, but it would be nice if fetchmail set a good example > here. > > It would also be appreciated if you could apply the patch from bug #498427 > if and when you apply this one, as that would eliminate Ubuntu's delta on > the fetchmail package entirely and let the two distros be in sync again. [...] Thank you very much for the feedback and the patch (also the one for #586866). I'll upload new packages soon and will make sure to include these patches.
Kind regards Nico -- Nico Golde - http://www.ngolde.de - n...@jabber.ccc.de - GPG: 0xA0A0AAAA For security reasons, all text in this mail is double-rot13 encrypted.
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