Hi, On Sonntag, 29. April 2012, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 07:03:11PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > > The 500 packages that would have to change their Depends from "exim4 | > > mta" to something else. > The brokenness of having to have a default package hardcoded in > every virtual dependency rather than having a virtual defaults > package and/or central list is an insanity I wish we could have > fixed years ago.
yeah, if only people used the bts more often ;) This problem is being tracked since 4 years... If the BTS is right, it's only three packages blocking #508644 "Sorting out mail-transport-agent mess": Fix blocked by 645024: fwknop-server: dependencies spell default-mta wrong, 645022: nmh: please change Recommends to default-mta | mail-transport-agent, 645020: pyca: please change Depends to default-mta | mail-transport-agent ;-) cheers, Holger P.S.: please only reply to the bug#, that will make sure it reaches debian- devel@ - I just cc:ed the list to keep the thread views intact... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201205021920.39532.hol...@layer-acht.org