package dma tag 606398 + pending thanks On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 10:53:49PM +0100, Alexander Bochmann wrote: > Package: dma > Version: 0.0.2010.06.17-6 > Severity: normal > > > Some programs (for example mailx from heirloom-mailx) expect to find > a sendmail binary in /usr/lib/sendmail. Sending mails via mailx fails > when dma is installed, as this file is missing.
True; thanks for noticing and letting me know! > On a Debian system with an actual sendmail installed, the following links > exist (although no package claims ownership of /usr/lib/sendmail): > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 Oct 18 21:15 /usr/lib/sendmail -> > /etc/alternatives/lib.sendmail > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Oct 18 21:15 /etc/alternatives/lib.sendmail -> > /usr/lib/sm.bin/sendmail Hmm, it seems that sendmail is the only package which actually bothers to use the alternatives system; all the other MTA's I could see just put a /usr/lib/sendmail -> /usr/sbin/sendmail symlink. I guess nobody ever came up with a real use case when one would want to have /usr/lib/sendmail point to anything else than the actually installed MTA :) Thus, I've added the lib/sendmail -> sbin/dma link in my Git repository; the new version of the dma package will be uploaded soon. Thanks for using dma :) G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint FDBA FD79 C26F 3C51 C95E DF9E ED18 B68D 1619 4553 No language can express every thought unambiguously, least of all this one.
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