Debian Bug report logs - #832953
do not ask about synchronous queue updates

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Antoine Beaupré <anarcat@debian.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: do not ask about synchronous queue updates

Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2016 21:26:50 -0400

Package: postfix
Version: 2.11.3-1
Severity: wishlist

Postfix asks everyone about synchronous queue updates. I believe this
is too noisy for most users.

First, I think the warning is too dramatic: I have never lost mails
during a crash as described, and besides, journaling filsystems like
ext3 are pretty much the norm now. Anyone using a different filesystem
should know better and can do that configuration on their own.

Second, upstream used to do that themselves... back in 1998. That has
stopped since 2002! It seems to me we are being too conservative here
by annoying everyone who installs Postfix on Debian with that silly
question.

Please remove the prompt or demote it to `-plow`.

Thank you for your consideration!

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.5
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.5.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages postfix depends on:
ii  adduser                3.113+nmu3
ii  cpio                   2.11+dfsg-4.1+deb8u1
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.56
ii  dpkg                   1.17.27
ii  libc6                  2.19-18+deb8u4
ii  libdb5.3               5.3.28-9
ii  libsasl2-2             2.1.26.dfsg1-13+deb8u1
ii  libsqlite3-0           3.8.7.1-1+deb8u1
ii  libssl1.0.0            1.0.1t-1+deb8u2
ii  lsb-base               4.1+Debian13+nmu1
ii  netbase                5.3
ii  ssl-cert               1.0.35

Versions of packages postfix recommends:
ii  python  2.7.9-1

Versions of packages postfix suggests:
ii  bsd-mailx [mail-reader]  8.1.2-0.20141216cvs-2
pn  dovecot-common           <none>
ii  emacs24 [mail-reader]    24.4+1-5
ii  evolution [mail-reader]  3.12.9~git20141130.241663-1+b1
ii  icedove [mail-reader]    1:45.1.0-1~deb8u1
ii  libsasl2-modules         2.1.26.dfsg1-13+deb8u1
ii  mutt [mail-reader]       1.5.23-3
pn  postfix-cdb              <none>
pn  postfix-doc              <none>
pn  postfix-ldap             <none>
pn  postfix-mysql            <none>
pn  postfix-pcre             <none>
pn  postfix-pgsql            <none>
pn  procmail                 <none>
ii  resolvconf               1.76.1
pn  sasl2-bin                <none>
pn  ufw                      <none>

-- debconf information excluded

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