Re: Bug#508644: mass bugfiling (against 8 packages) and/or new package default-mta

2009-03-02 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, Mar 01 2009, Carsten Hey wrote: > On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 04:55:23PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote: >> We could have a exim4 upload implementing in sid this rather quickly >> after receiving a go. > > In general I much prefer a virtual package over a real one but I think > we should wait a

Re: Policy 3.8.1

2009-03-02 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 09:54:25PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > I think it's time (really, probably past time) for the 3.8.1 upload. > There's still some stuff in flight, but that's always going to be true, > and a lot of bugs are already fixed in Git. > > My intention is to upload 3.8.1 next week

Re: Bug#508644: mass bugfiling (against 8 packages) and/or new package default-mta

2009-03-02 Thread Carsten Hey
On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 09:44:41PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > You have a case here where the user has managed to run a complete > system for a non-negligible period of time without ever installing an > MTA (long enough to either configure oldstable in their sources.list, > or for the version of

Re: Bug#508644: mass bugfiling (against 8 packages) and/or new package default-mta

2009-03-02 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 08:25:38PM +0100, Carsten Hey wrote: > Among the problems we try to deal with the proposed solutions is, as > Daniel wrote in <494422e7.2060...@debian.org>, that apt (and/or > aptitude) take the alphabetically first package which provides foo and > installs that to fulfill t

Re: Bug#508644: mass bugfiling (against 8 packages) and/or new package default-mta

2009-03-02 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Steve Langasek wrote: On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 06:32:45PM +0100, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote: Hmmm. I partially agree, but then we have an unnecessary exception: such virtual packages must have only one "provider", or else there will be problems (IIRC) on dpkg, apt or ddbuild, if such dependency is d