FS#35238 - [exim] /usr/sbin/sendmail gone

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Daniel Lublin (quite) - Monday, 13 May 2013, 07:24 GMT
Last edited by Jelle van der Waa (jelly) - Tuesday, 14 May 2013, 20:15 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details


As of 4.80.1-2, the exim package no longer provides any binaries in /usr/sbin/.

This breaks a default configured mutt, mailx and probably many more. Perhaps it would be good if this package could continue to provide at least a symlink at /usr/sbin/sendmail (and perhaps also mailq, rmail, rsmtp and runq as well; as I guess those are all binaries that exim provides in its role as generic smtp-server).

Perhaps there is an overall idea of moving away from sbin (I think I've read something like that, but I may be wrong), but until /usr/sbin is a symlink to /usr/bin, I think it would be polite to try and not cause this kind of breakage.

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Closed by  Jelle van der Waa (jelly)
Tuesday, 14 May 2013, 20:15 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Additional comments about closing:  We're working on it
https://www.archlinux.org/todo/move-file s-to-usrbin-if-possible/

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