Package: dkimproxy Version: 1.4.1-3 Severity: normal Tags: patch Dear Maintainer,
the dkimproxy package has a package recommendation for amavisd-new, which should be changed to a package suggestion. According to the Debian Policy Manual, "[t]he Recommends field should list packages that would be found together with this one in all but unusual installations". The Suggests field seems more appropriate in this case: "This is used to declare that one package may be more useful with one or more others. Using this field tells the packaging system and the user that the listed packages are related to this one and can perhaps enhance its usefulness, but that installing this one without them is perfectly reasonable". On systems, where dkimproxy is merely used to sign outgoing mail from a single source, installing dkimproxy without amavisd-new seems perfectly reasonable to me. I've attached a simple patch to change the recommendation accordingly. Best, Sebastian -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.7 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.8.6-x86_64-linode78 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.utf8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages dkimproxy depends on: ii adduser 3.113+nmu3 ii liberror-perl 0.17-1.1 ii libmail-dkim-perl 0.40-1 ii libnet-server-perl 2.008-1 ii libtext-wrapper-perl 1.05-1 ii lsb-base 4.1+Debian13+nmu1 ii openssl 1.0.1t-1+deb8u6 ii perl 5.20.2-3+deb8u6 ii ssl-cert 1.0.35 Versions of packages dkimproxy recommends: pn amavisd-new <none> dkimproxy suggests no packages. -- Configuration Files: /etc/default/dkimproxy changed [not included] /etc/dkimproxy/dkimproxy_out.conf changed [not included] -- no debconf information
>From a30c8f7aa247f7bb8becbd2a8dc9359569576e21 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sebastian Boehm <sebast...@sometimesfood.org> Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 13:37:40 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Change "Recommends: amavisd-new" to "Suggests" --- debian/control | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control index 13dd936..0a73786 100644 --- a/debian/control +++ b/debian/control @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Homepage: http://dkimproxy.sourceforge.net/ Package: dkimproxy Architecture: all Depends: ${perl:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, libtext-wrapper-perl, libmail-dkim-perl (>= 0.34), libnet-server-perl, adduser, ssl-cert, lsb-base, openssl, liberror-perl -Recommends: amavisd-new +Suggests: amavisd-new Replaces: dkfilter Conflicts: dkfilter Description: an SMTP-proxy that signs and/or verifies emails, using the Mail::DKIM module -- 2.1.4
