On Jul 21, Dima wrote > >>Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: > > >A related question: is there any chance of getting a Debianized > >distribution of qmail in the near future? A mere source could do. > > You can use a non-debianized version: the only difference is that > Debian already have qmail users and groups in /etc/passwd & /etc/group > so you'll need to skip most of INSTALL.ids part of qmail setup. > And you'll need to write a startup script.
That's not the hard part. I had once installed qmail on my late
Slackware system, so I know the procedure. However, how can I tell the
Debian packaging system that I have an undebianized MTA? Many Debian
packages depend on a message transfer agent, and just removing smail
in favour of undebianized qmail will generate _lots_ of dependency
problems.
> >I know that there is qmail in project/experimental (at least my mirror
> >has it), but I'd rather not use alpha software -- and I think I would
> >be violating Dan's copyright if I were to use the experimental
> >package, wouldn't I?
>
> I don't know about the copyright, or why using debianized qmail-1.0
> in experimental would be different from using non-debianized qmail-1.0
> wrt copy rites.
BTW, there's qmail 1.01. qmail-1.0 is old.
All binary distributions of qmail must be authorized. The same goes to
modified source distributions. I am assuming that this is one reason
for the fact that qmail is in experimental rather than in non-free.
> I'm using it, and I've been using non-debianized qmail
> before Christian packaged it, and they haven't arrested me (yet). :)
None of my acquaintances and friends who use pirated MS software have
been arrested.
Antti-Juhani
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