[debian-mysql] [PATCH 3/8] Move mailx from Recommends to Suggests

Robie Basak robie.basak at canonical.com
Mon Feb 10 13:50:16 UTC 2014


In Ubuntu, an MTA isn't necessarily installed by default; mailx (or at
least bsd-mailx, which provides mailx) requires one, forcing the user to
configure an MTA that is unlikely to be used. So Ubuntu moves mailx to
Suggests already.

This makes sense for Debian too. Users with an MTA installed will get
the additional functionality of the sysadmin being emailed from
debian-start.inc.sh; users without an MTA installed will not.
---
 debian/control | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 3f5cb47..641e895 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -162,8 +162,8 @@ Description: MySQL database server binaries
 
 Package: mysql-server-5.5
 Architecture: any
-Suggests: tinyca
-Recommends: libhtml-template-perl, mailx
+Suggests: tinyca, mailx
+Recommends: libhtml-template-perl
 Pre-Depends: adduser (>= 3.40), debconf, mysql-common (>= ${source:Version})
 Depends:
  initscripts (>= 2.88dsf-13.3),
-- 
1.8.3.2




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