First of all, sorry for the previous e-mails: I had some problems with my e-mail client... :-(
Christian Hammers wrote:
> Those bugs were tagged unreproducible and were waiting for more user
> input for too long, are for an experimental version or are change
> requests specific to MySQL 4.0 which will vanish soon (and cannot get
> into Sarge). Closing them therefore.
This particular bug isn't unreproducible, isn't for an experimental
version and isn't about 4.0 but all versions of MySQL, including 4.1
and 5.0.
The big issue on this bug is one that has been being discussed lot's of
times on the mailing lists and forums, which is, as Dan Woodard wrote:
> While having a mail program is useful, it is hard to see why it
> should be essential for a database. Surely it is more robust simply
> to log errors or problems in a log file rather than to try to email
> them? My suggestion would be to allow mysql-server to be or remain
> installed without mailx so that the MTA could be changed without
> removing mysql-server.
Or, in other words, Debian should follow the steps of several other
distros on this issue, and mysql-server should NOT depend on mailx since
it isn't needed for the server to run, and because lot's of people will
want mysql-server in a server without having a MTA.
Christian Hammers also wrote:
> mailx can be expected to be able to be present there's no reason to
> workaround this (other packages would probably stumble over this, too)
but I don't see how "mailx is expected to be present" and "other
packages probably do the same"justifies mysql-server's dependency on
mailx. It should be a recommended package, but not a necessary one.
Best regards,
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Marcos Marado <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sonaecom ISP
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