[Pkg-samba-maint] panic-action depends on mail

[Steve Langasek]

On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 08:35:50AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
> Quoting Peter Eisentraut (peter_e at gmx.net):
> > The panic-action script uses the mail command but there is no dependency 
> > on any package providing that command, as I just noticed since I didn't 
> > have it installed.  Is it worth adding a dependency for that, seeing 
> > that panic-action is surely tertiary functionality?  Since mailx is 
> > priority standard most people will probably have it anyway so the 
> > dependency might do no harm.  Comments?

> Given that this is not a required feature, I'd recommend testing that
> mailx is available and send the mail only when it is.

> This, we could then add a Recommends instead of a Depends

FWIW, I think a Suggests is fine; this isn't central functionality, by any
means -- it's only used when there's a crash, and I think most users will
get by just fine without samba ever crashing. ;)  Also, I don't see any need
to even check for the presence of mailx -- if the panic-action script fails
because it's missing, so what?

-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
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