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

[gregor herrmann]

On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:40:18 +0000, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:

> > 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()"
> >      }
> >  }
> 
> I don't really think that's appropriate either. I haven't checked the
> behaviour of MIME::Lite with this conditional section removed (ie as per
> the patch on rt.cpan.org) but really it should behave gracefully itself.

Agreed.

> carp()ing isn't really appropriate here either. The error only needs to
> appear if send_by_sendmail is used, and send should select sendmail if
> available, and not otherwise.

Right, that would involve moving the test into to send_by_sendmail()
method.
 
> BTW, I'm happy in principle to help out with team-maintained perl
> packages, if that'd be useful - my alioth username is 'dom'.

Thanks, that would by really appreciated!

@dam, gwolf: Could you add dom please?

@dom: If you haven't done so yet please take a look at
http://pkg-perl.alioth.debian.org/ and the policy and subversion docs
to get a feeling about our workflow. And
http://pkg-perl.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/qareport.cgi shows the
status and TODO for our packages.
 
> Let me know if you will carry this forward or you would like me to
> propose a patch for the behaviour described above.
 
I'd be thankful if you found the time to prepare such a patch!

Cheers,
gregor
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