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

[Stanislav German-Evtushenko]

I would think about this similar to database dependency for web
applications required it. It shouldn't depend on db server and should only
depend on database library. DB server can be chosen by a user or even
installed on another host.

I've had a look to the issue you mentioned. The author also argued for
suggests.

Best regards,
Stanislav
On Jun 6, 2014 9:27 PM, "gregor herrmann" <gregoa at debian.org> wrote:

> 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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