Bug#462314: libmime-lite-perl: Should not depend on a mail-transport-agent
On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 14:27:30 -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: libmime-lite-perl depends on nullmailer | mail-transport-agent. However, libmime-lite-perl does not actually need an MTA unless the caller wants to send a mail using the sendmail method. libmime-lite-perl can also generate MIME messages and send them via SMTP, or return them as a string. Thus, this makes an MTA *at most* a Recommends. I would argue for Suggests, since I do not believe libmime-lite-perl needs an MTA in all but unusual installations. Thanks for your bugreport. After some discussion on IRC we've now moved the MTA from Depends (as it's really not necessary) to Recommends (as 'sendmail' is the default method for -send() and therefore probably expected to work on Linux systems). Cheers, gregor -- .''`. http://info.comodo.priv.at/ | gpg key ID: 0x00F3CFE4 : :' : debian: the universal operating system - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' member of https://www.vibe.at/ | how to reply: http://got.to/quote/ `-NP: The Beatles: Eight Days A Week signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#462314: libmime-lite-perl: Should not depend on a mail-transport-agent
Package: libmime-lite-perl Version: 3.021-1 Severity: normal libmime-lite-perl depends on nullmailer | mail-transport-agent. However, libmime-lite-perl does not actually need an MTA unless the caller wants to send a mail using the sendmail method. libmime-lite-perl can also generate MIME messages and send them via SMTP, or return them as a string. Thus, this makes an MTA *at most* a Recommends. I would argue for Suggests, since I do not believe libmime-lite-perl needs an MTA in all but unusual installations. - Josh Triplett -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.23-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
