Package: postfix Version: 3.3.0-1 Severity: wishlist When adding other packages to a Debian installed postfix, manual edit of master.cf is needed to connect them. This is not the modern style of Debian packaging, which have added separate directory for which other package maintainers can add their configuration for each package. I thus propose that the postfix package also adds a master.cf.d for which other packages can add their specific hooks into postfix configuration.
Among packages that should be relevant to add their hooks into master.cf.d I find spamassassin, amavis, openspf, opendkim, opendmarc, milter. Thus, it would enable much more of a drop-in configuration than the current state of affairs. The existing master.cf would remain, but the service script should upon postfix start or reload of configuration append any of the files in master.cf.d into a generated master.cf which is then used. The generated file should have a first line of comment "# Do not edit this file, automatically generated" and then for each file included, the included part should be prepended with a comment with filename for the source. This will ease debugging. With this in place, package maintainers can drop in the package maintained master.cf.d file suitable, for instance the openspf package would add master.cf.d/openspf. The user doing "apt-get install openspf" would then not need to alter the postfix configuration by hand, but get the openspf operating. The expected implementation impact would be creating a directory and some selected scripting to build the aggregated master.cf file and then change the postfix call to use the aggregated master.cf file. Similarly may main.cf need main.cf.d. This may however need some more work, since some packages wants to add values into the middle of existing values lists. Beyond that the same logic applies. Best Regards, Magnus
