On 2017-06-01 Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrha...@canonical.com> wrote: [...] > I came by merging exim4 for the next Ubuntu release recently and doing that > for the seconds time I realized that the only difference people carry on > since ages (it seems) is a Distribution specific SMTP banner.
> Now I checked and the patch works for Debian just as well as it is getting > it at configure time via lsb_release. > I couldn't believe that something like 15 different people never asked, but > maybe I searched for the wrong terms when looking for this discussion > already taking place in the past. > At least the times I've touched it that was a diff always easy to maintain > - worst case do a 'quilt refresh' once and it is around and working since > several years; so it should be low-to-no effort to be kept around and > maintained. > On one hand it would for you give Debian more explicit visibility on some > of the internet scapper tools that generate e.g. market share based on > server headers (not so importan, but at least A reason). > And on the other hand it would allow Ubuntu to make exim4 a sync, which is > easier to maintain (clearly more my benefit than yours I know). > Therefore I'd ask you if you'd be willing to take the attached (2) patches > into Debian? Hello Christian, you did not miss any discussion on the patch. I am aware of its existence, though. I had seen the change in Ubuntu and intentionally chose to not pull it into Debian. I just do not see a benefit. And given a choice of patching upstream and not patching it I will stay with upstream unless there is avery good reason for patching. cu Andreas -- `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are so grateful to you.' `I sew his ears on from time to time, sure'
