Bug#714634: [lsb-discuss] Clarification of general LSB requirements

2013-07-11 Thread Aaron Sowry
On Thu, 2013-07-11 at 08:33 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > No, you aren't agreeing. I'm saying that *either* lsb-core should prefer > lsb-invalid-mta, *or* lsb-invalid-mta should not exist. lsb-invalid-mta, > without a Provides: mail-transport-agent, *does* satisfy the cron issue. Okay, I misund

Bug#714634: [lsb-discuss] Clarification of general LSB requirements

2013-07-11 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 09:53:52AM +0200, Aaron Sowry wrote: > On Wed, 2013-07-10 at 17:25 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > If lsb-core is going to pull in default-mta as the preferred option, then > > arguably lsb-invalid-mta shouldn't exist at all > I agree. None of the suggested solutions addre

Bug#714634: [lsb-discuss] Clarification of general LSB requirements

2013-07-11 Thread Aaron Sowry
On Wed, 2013-07-10 at 17:25 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > If lsb-core is going to pull in default-mta as the preferred option, then > arguably lsb-invalid-mta shouldn't exist at all I agree. None of the suggested solutions address the crontab issue, and there may be other similar problems we have

Bug#714634: [lsb-discuss] Clarification of general LSB requirements

2013-07-10 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le mercredi, 10 juillet 2013 20.20:21, Steve Langasek a écrit : > On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 02:10:22AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > (It's probably also worth noting that Debian does not claim LSB > > compliance and the description of that Debian package states, > > rather prominently: "The intent o

Bug#714634: [lsb-discuss] Clarification of general LSB requirements

2013-07-10 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le jeudi, 11 juillet 2013 02.27:52, Russ Allbery a écrit : > Steve Langasek writes: > > If lsb-core is going to pull in default-mta as the preferred > > option, then arguably lsb-invalid-mta shouldn't exist at all (or > > at least, there's no reason to label it an 'lsb' package). I > > think the

Bug#714634: [lsb-discuss] Clarification of general LSB requirements

2013-07-10 Thread Russ Allbery
Steve Langasek writes: > If lsb-core is going to pull in default-mta as the preferred option, > then arguably lsb-invalid-mta shouldn't exist at all (or at least, > there's no reason to label it an 'lsb' package). I think the purpose of > the package is to let lsb-core be installed without autom

Bug#714634: [lsb-discuss] Clarification of general LSB requirements

2013-07-10 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 12:08:00PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > I would argue that lsb-invalid-mta is a perfectly valid solution for > > lsb-core, but that it should not Provide: mail-transport-agent - so that > > any packages that actually say "yes, I require an MTA" get the default > > MTA and

Bug#714634: [lsb-discuss] Clarification of general LSB requirements

2013-07-10 Thread Russ Allbery
Steve Langasek writes: > I don't think there's any problem here wrt the LSB standard, but I'm not > thrilled about the package-wise implementation of lsb-invalid-mta, > particularly from the perspective of a Debian derivative which does not > ship an MTA by default. > - user installs a stock sy

Bug#714634: [lsb-discuss] Clarification of general LSB requirements

2013-07-10 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 02:10:22AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > But, in the example that you raise, this is an optional configuration. > Indeed, at least at present and in all previous releases of Debian, one > has to go out of one's way to get the lsb-invalid-mta package installed, > since a fully