Bug#465342: libmime-lite-perl: Unusable without mail-transport-agent

[gregor herrmann]

On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 23:30:27 +0000, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:

> > > libmime-lite-perl depends on nullmailer | mail-transport-agent.
> > > However, libmime-lite-perl does not actually need an MTA unless the
> You may believe this, but this doesn't make it true :)

And I believed it too, sorry.
  
> > 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).
> Sorry, no. Your change causes libmime-lite-perl to be entirely broken
> when no mail-transport-agent is available:

After reading the code again I agree; there's also an upstream bug
report:
http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=31245
 
> Please reinstate the dependency you removed, or patch upstream not to die
> under these conditions.

Ack, by this change the package (and its rdepends) are rather broken
:/
Actually I'd prefer a patch; the one at CPAN is not really elegant,
maybe we can come up with something more "elegant"?

First attempt:

Index: lib/MIME/Lite.pm
===================================================================
--- lib/MIME/Lite.pm	(revision 14794)
+++ lib/MIME/Lite.pm	(working copy)
@@ -401,7 +401,7 @@
         }
     }
     unless (-x $SENDMAIL) {
-        Carp::croak "can't find an executable sendmail"
+        Carp::carp "can't find an executable sendmail, you won't be able to use send_by_sendmail()"
     }
 }
 


Cheers,
gregor

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