mail-transport-agent (Re: Bug#504880: Disambiguate installed for packages)

2010-07-27 Thread Jonathan Nieder
(-cc: the bug. Sorry about that tangent.) Bill Allombert wrote: Another issue is that only one MTA can be listening on port 25 at any time, and Debian does not provide a way to prevent two packages to be configured to listen on the same port. That is a good point, and one that I do not

mail-transport-agent (Re: Bug#504880: Disambiguate installed for packages)

2010-07-26 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Russ Allbery wrote: Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com writes: Aside: is this advice right? Maybe we should be encouraging Provides: mail-transport-agent Breaks: mail-transport-agent Replaces: mail-transport-agent instead. [...] newaliases programs have to match whatever MTA is

Re: mail-transport-agent (Re: Bug#504880: Disambiguate installed for packages)

2010-07-26 Thread Russ Allbery
Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com writes: If we instead take the Conflicts seriously, then switching between MTAs requires the following sequences of events: deconfigure packages that pre-depend or depend on mail-transport-agent remove the old mail-transport-agent unpack the new