Bug#750755: libmime-lite-perl: nullmailer and mail-transport-agent should be in suggests rather than recommends

[gregor herrmann]

On Fri, 06 Jun 2014 18:44:39 +0400, Stanislav German-Evtushenko wrote:

> libmime-lite-perl installs nullmailer or mail-transport-agent by default as
> it is in recommends. It seems not a proper behaviour.
> 
> For example, if I install apt-dater-host it installs imvirt (Recommends),
> imvirt installs libimvirt-perl (Depends), libimvirt-perl installs
> imvirt-helper (Depends), imvirt-helper installs libmime-lite-perl (Depends)
> and libmime-lite-perl installs nullmailer or mail-transport-agent
> (Recommends).
> 
> So if I install apt-dater-host it also installs nullmailer or
> mail-transport-agent and asks to configure SMTP host which is not required
> for apt-dater-host to work.

Thanks for your bug report.

We could move nullmailer|MTA from Recommends to Suggests. I'm just
not sure this is a good idea, since the libmime-lite-perl
documentation talks about sending mails via sendmail ...
(And "Recommends" means you don't have to follow the recomendation.)

Here's the commit where we moved it from Depends to Recommends 6 six
ago:
http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-perl/packages/libmime-lite-perl.git;a=commitdiff;h=592f06fe2d8b056c7fceca7ba1922bd95e057bea
and the related bug, which also is about Depends → Recommends or
Suggests:
https://bugs.debian.org/462314

Other opinions?


Chers,
gregor

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