Bug#714634: [lsb-discuss] Clarification of general LSB requirements

Steve Langasek <[email protected]> writes:

> If lsb-core is going to pull in default-mta as the preferred option,
> then arguably lsb-invalid-mta shouldn't exist at all (or at least,
> there's no reason to label it an 'lsb' package).  I think the purpose of
> the package is to let lsb-core be installed without automatically
> pulling in an MTA that has to be configured, and default-mta |
> mail-transport-agent | lsb-invalid-mta wouldn't achieve that.

> But I think dropping the Provides: from lsb-invalid-mta would.

Ah, I see.  Hm.

I do think that the behavior a user most likely expects, when installing
lsb-core, is to pull in a functional MTA.  In other words, I think it's
fine to provide a way for a sysadmin to select to not configure an MTA,
but I do think that installing lsb-core should result in configuring an
MTA by default.

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Russ Allbery ([email protected])             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>