On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 10:36:51AM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > martin f krafft wrote: > > [moving debian-rele...@l.d.o to Bcc, continuing discussion in bug log] > > > > also sprach Andreas Metzler <ametz...@downhill.at.eu.org> [2009.05.04.1856 > > +0200]: > >> FWIW as previously discussed on debian-devel starting with the > >> lastest upload (4.69-10) exim4-daemon-light provides default-mta. > > > > Excellent. If there are no objections, I'll formulate a squeeze > > release goal and file the bugs. > > > > As maintainer of rsyslog I followed this discussion with great interest. > Atm there are around 30 packages which depend/recommend > rsyslog | system-log-daemon > (or still use sysklogd | system-log-daemon, for which I have filed bugs in the > past to change that to rsyslog | system-log-daemon). > > My generell feeling I got from the discussion, is that the (virtual) > default-mta > package is considered a good idea, so should we use the some approach for > system-log-daemons and introduce a default-syslog package?
I think it is a problem extending to all virtual packages, and I would like to see a more general solution which is applicable to all. It might be worth revisiting past discussion, for example this thread: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/08/msg01281.html (I've CCd -devel and -policy because it's a general issue which should ideally be in policy) The above discussion proposed a solution like default-mta. At the time, I also wrote a sample "virtual-default" package which generated these -defaults packages for all virtual packages in the archive. At the time I held off actually implementing this because Anthony Towns said he was implementing a better method in dpkg itself. However, I've not seen any more about this other than that single time, and if mta-defaults is being created it looks like we are still looking for a solution. It would be great if we can have a general method for specifying distribution-wide virtual package defaults, of which mail-transport-agent-default is just one. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
