Package: spamassassin Version: 3.0.3-2 Severity: wishlist The spamassassin package depends upon spamc. But the spamassassin package is quite useful without the spamc package installed. Depending upon spamc makes it inconvenient to test upgrades. Please remove the depends spamc from the spamassassin package and make this a recommends spamc instead.
I can guess why things are this way. So that the clueless newbie who installs spamassassin gets spamc without thinking. And I can live with that. But it was annoying me and I could find no information in the BTS about it. Meanwhile the spamc package says in the description: This package is useless unless you have spamassassin installed, either on this machine or another local machine (i.e. a mail server). But it does not depend upon spamassassin. If it truly is useless then it should Depend: spamassassin. But of course this would make a circular dependency which is undesirable. But with a recommends then this would work. I imagine that really in a perfect world it should be organized as spamassassin-engine for people who do not need spamc. And spamc for the binary parts. And a spamassassin meta that depends upon both for the clueless newbie who just installs spamassassin. People who do not need spamc could avoid it by installing just the engine part in that case. Bob -- Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.proulx.com/~bob/ -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-11-amd64-k8 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages spamassassin depends on: ii debconf 1.4.48 Debian configuration management sy ii libdigest-sha1-perl 2.10-1 NIST SHA-1 message digest algorith ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.45-2 A collection of modules that parse ii perl [libstorable-perl] 5.8.4-8 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii spamc 3.0.3-2 Client for SpamAssassin spam filte -- debconf information excluded -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
