Default apt-listchanges configuration sends mails, and I'm unsure this should change.
On Sat, Oct 09, 2010 at 03:14:18PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > Package: apt-listchanges > Version: 2.85.5 > Severity: normal > > apt-listchanges recommends exim4 | mail-transport-agent. However, > apt-listchanges works perfectly well when just displaying the list of > changes to a pager at install time, and only needs an MTA if mailing the > list of changes elsewhere. Please consider downgrading the dependency > to a suggestion, to avoid pulling in an MTA by default (since recommends > now get installed by default). > > Thanks, > Josh Triplett > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: squeeze/sid > APT prefers unstable > APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > > Kernel: Linux 2.6.36-rc6-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) > Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash > > Versions of packages apt-listchanges depends on: > ii apt 0.8.6 Advanced front-end for dpkg > ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.36 Debian configuration management > sy > ii debianutils 3.4.1 Miscellaneous utilities specific > t > ii python 2.6.6-3 interactive high-level > object-orie > ii python-apt 0.7.98.1 Python interface to libapt-pkg > ii python-support 1.0.10 automated rebuilding support for > P > ii ucf 3.0025+nmu1 Update Configuration File: > preserv > > Versions of packages apt-listchanges recommends: > pn exim4 | mail-transport-agent <none> (no description available) > > Versions of packages apt-listchanges suggests: > ii chromium-browser [ww 6.0.472.62~r59676-1 Chromium browser > ii gnome-terminal [x-te 2.30.2-1 The GNOME terminal emulator > applic > ii iceweasel [www-brows 4.0~b5-1 Web browser based on Firefox > ii links2 [www-browser] 2.3~pre1-1 Web browser running in both > graphi > ii python-glade2 2.17.0-4 GTK+ bindings: Glade support > ii python-gtk2 2.17.0-4 Python bindings for the GTK+ > widge > ii xterm [x-terminal-em 261-1 X terminal emulator > > -- debconf information: > * apt-listchanges/frontend: pager > * apt-listchanges/confirm: true > * apt-listchanges/which: both > * apt-listchanges/email-address: > * apt-listchanges/save-seen: true > > -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O madco...@debian.org OOO http://www.madism.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
