Bug#916986: Downgrade hard-dependency on mailutils to recommends

2018-12-26 Thread Rob Browning
John Zaitseff writes: > By the way, I don't know if I need to create a new bug report, but > emacs-nox 1:26.1+1-2 is 24.4MB larger than the previous version, > 1:25.2+1-11. Is there that much difference between the two > versions, or has something been included in the package by accident? If

Bug#916986: Downgrade hard-dependency on mailutils to recommends

2018-12-21 Thread John Zaitseff
Dear Rob, To add to this bug report: firstly, a big thanks for releasing Emacs 26 as a Debian package--I've been looking forward to this for quite a while. Secondly, if the dependencies could be changed, that would be appreciated: apart from "normal" systems, I run Emacs (emacs-nox) in a chroot

Bug#916986: Downgrade hard-dependency on mailutils to recommends

2018-12-21 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Dear Rob Browning, first, I'd like to thank you for your work on emacs. As I use emacs intensivly in my daily work but very seldom its e-mail capabilities, I also would appreciate if the dependency on mailutils could be relaxed somehow. Regards, Jörg.

Bug#916986: Downgrade hard-dependency on mailutils to recommends

2018-12-20 Thread Dato Simó
Package: emacs Version: 1:26.1+1-2 It's nice that Emacs now uses secure tools for downloading e-mail, but the dependency on mailutils boils down to ~22 MiB of extra packages (that was in my case, considering I already had a MTA installed; mailutils depends on mail-transport-agent!) It would