Gerrit Pape writes:
> If there is interest in having qmail in the debian-distribution, perhaps I
> get Dan J. Bernstein's approval sometime.
Produce two packages:
qmail, which is a 100% debian-compatible binary package which puts
files in the locations required by Debian.
qmail-compat, which is required by qmail, and which uses symlinks
to ensure that all files are found in the locations Dan has
mandated.
Those two packages satisfy Dan's requirements for qmail distributors,
and satisfies Debian's requirements for locations of binaries, man
pages, and configuration files.
> Getting the packages into debian is the easier part, I think, that is what
> lintian reports as errors by now:
I thought Debian was foolishly talking about removing non-free?
You'll never, ever get qmail into Debian except in non-free. And if
Debian stops distributing non-free, then there's no point in worrying
about Debian compatibility. You may as well produce a 100%
djb-compatible vanilla qmail .deb.
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