>>Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote:
... However, how can I tell the
>Debian packaging system that I have an undebianized MTA? Many Debian
>packages depend on a message transfer agent, and just removing smail
>in favour of undebianized qmail will generate _lots_ of dependency
>problems.
You can a) hit SHIFT+Q in dselect every time to override dependecies
or b) install a dummy package that provides MTA. Search for messages
about equivs package in the list archive.
>
>All binary distributions of qmail must be authorized. The same goes to
>modified source distributions. I am assuming that this is one reason
>for the fact that qmail is in experimental rather than in non-free.
My impression was that it's in experimental because it has no license.
At least when I last visited the website it hadn't -- there only was
a page on how software should be free.
>None of my acquaintances and friends who use pirated MS software have
>been arrested.
Just kidding.
I assume debian is authorised to distribute a pre-compiled binary of
qmail. As for modifications to the source, all I can see is a symlink
from /var/qmail/control to /etc/qmail. In other words, I doubt that
qmail package violates Bernstein's copyright.
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