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

gregor herrmann gregor+debian at comodo.priv.at
Thu Jan 24 17:14:34 UTC 2008


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
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