[Mailman-Developers] Mailman 2.X CVS MAIN is back

Tollef Fog Heen tfheen at err.no
Thu Sep 1 16:00:58 CEST 2005


* Brad Knowles 

| At 2:18 PM +0100 2005-09-01, Ian Eiloart wrote:
| 
| >  My view is that Debian should not be allowed to hold up anyone's
| >  development cycles. As far as I know, it still ships with exim 3 as the
| >  default mailer, over three years after exim 4 was released. I think that
| >  even 'sid' ships with exim 3 as the default mailer.
| 
| 	The problem is that a majority of the people who run python.org 
| are also heavily involved in Debian, so we're pretty much guaranteed 
| to be shackled by whatever the Debian people want to do.  I couldn't 
| even get them to agree to run ntpd instead of ntpdate on the 
| python.org machines, because that's not what was provided in the 
| Debian packages.

They might want to look at the «ntp-simple» Debian package, then.
ntpd is in that package.

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Tollef Fog Heen                                                        ,''`.
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