On 28 March 2012 18:29, Pierre Habouzit <madco...@madism.org> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 06:17:30PM +0200, Shahar Or wrote: >> Package: apt-listchanges >> >> Dear Ones, >> >> If there's no sendmail command, apt-listchanges crashes. >> >> apt-listchanges doesn't depend on an mta. It only recommends exim4, >> which is in itself unclear to me. > > Not if you only use the backend server. > > It recommends exim4 | m-t-a which is supposed to provide sendmail, for > the user needing it. Given that apt-listchanges is Standard nowadays, we > don't want it to pull m-t-a for the vast majority of users using the > pager backend. > > Having something nicer than a "crash" (probably a python exception) > when sendmail isn't there would probably be nice though (with an > explanation of what to do), hence I'll let the bug open.
Yes, thank you. As well as seeing these errors in the apt output, this crash makes trouble in Ubuntu because these errors trigger the error reporting mechanism, "apport", which then collects the information for submission as a bug report. > -- > ·O· Pierre Habouzit > ··O madco...@debian.org > OOO http://www.madism.org Thanks and Blessings, Shahar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
