[Pkg-mailman-hackers] Bug#616292: mailman: Should recommend a mail-transport-agent, not depend on one; works with a remote SMTP server

[Josh Triplett]

Package: mailman
Severity: normal

Mailman can run with a remote SMTP server, if you configure it to do so.
It does not require a local MTA.  Please consider changing the Depends
on exim4 | mail-transport-agent to a Recommends on the same, allowing
users to install mailman without a local MTA and configure mailman to
use an MTA elsewhere.

Thanks,
Josh Triplett

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-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 mailman depends on:
ii  adduser                 3.112+nmu2       add and remove users and groups
pn  apache2 | httpd         <none>           (no description available)
ii  cron                    3.0pl1-116       process scheduling daemon
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]   1.5.38           Debian configuration management sy
pn  exim4 | mail-transport- <none>           (no description available)
ii  libc6                   2.11.2-13        Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  logrotate               3.7.8-6          Log rotation utility
ii  lsb-base                3.2-27           Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  pwgen                   2.06-1+b1        Automatic Password generation
ii  python                  2.6.6-3+squeeze5 interactive high-level object-orie
ii  python-support          1.0.11           automated rebuilding support for P
ii  ucf                     3.0025+nmu1      Update Configuration File: preserv

mailman recommends no packages.

Versions of packages mailman suggests:
ii  listadmin                     2.40-4     command line mailman moderator que
pn  lynx                          <none>     (no description available)
pn  spamassassin                  <none>     (no description available)