[Pkg-samba-maint] panic-action depends on mail
Christian Perrier
bubulle at debian.org
Sun Jan 29 07:35:50 UTC 2006
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
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