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

On Wed, 2013-07-10 at 17:25 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> If lsb-core is going to pull in default-mta as the preferred option, then
> arguably lsb-invalid-mta shouldn't exist at all

I agree. None of the suggested solutions address the crontab issue, and
there may be other similar problems we haven't found yet.

I realise that Ubuntu perceives this as a problem, and it seems to stem
from the fact that Debian's default sendmail client implementation
(exim4) is intimately tied to the server component. But Debian !=
Ubuntu, and I agree with Debian's definition that an MTA should consist
of both server and client components. That said, there is no reason why
a simple sendmail client cannot be provided separately by those
distributions which don't want to have to install a server - is this a
completely unreasonable course of action for Canonical to take?

IMHO, as far as Debian is concerned, lsb-invalid-mta has to go.