Bug#462314: libmime-lite-perl: Should not depend on a mail-transport-agent

Josh Triplett josh at freedesktop.org
Wed Jan 23 22:27:30 UTC 2008


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





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