On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 12:47:43PM -0400, Richard Welty wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Oct 2002 17:56:27 +0200 Andreas Metzler <eximusers@???> wrote:
>> It is not about being afraid or not - installing the package relieves
>> me of _lots_ of work:
[...]
> with all due respect, if the maintainer of the debian package is MIA, most
> of these advantages are history (or soon will be.)
Hello,
He is not MIA, although I concur that sometimes it looks like he is.
last upload for exim was on 2002-09-20.
http://packages.qa.debian.org/e/exim.html
>> If I did not want this benefits I'd use http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/
> i don't think anyone is telling you to build your whole system from
> scratch.
If you start installing one of the base-packages
(mail-transport-agent) with make install in /usr/local/ and mess with
equivs to keep the package management happy, you should know what you
are doing. Whoever has problems with this is better of with the binary
package og exim3.
> the problem with waiting for exim 4 from debian is that it may
> take a while, and in the meantime you're missing out on all the nice
> features that exim 4 has and exim 3 lacks.
[...]
Use the inofficial packages, provide feedback.
If /somebody/ makes good packages for exim4, i.e: lintian-clean and
debconfized, she/he'll have no problem getting them uploaded (with a
sponsor). Once they've had some testing in debian, exim4 might follow
exim3 as standard MTA.
BTW I'd suggest using a new package name exim4, because switching from
3 to 4 requires manual intervention, like upgrading from inn 1.7 to
inn2.
cu andreas
