On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 23:30:27 +0000, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > > > libmime-lite-perl depends on nullmailer | mail-transport-agent. > > > However, libmime-lite-perl does not actually need an MTA unless the > You may believe this, but this doesn't make it true :)
And I believed it too, sorry. > > After some discussion on IRC we've now moved the MTA from Depends > > (as it's really not necessary) to Recommends (as 'sendmail' is the > > default method for ->send() and therefore probably expected to work on > > Linux systems). > Sorry, no. Your change causes libmime-lite-perl to be entirely broken > when no mail-transport-agent is available: After reading the code again I agree; there's also an upstream bug report: http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=31245 > Please reinstate the dependency you removed, or patch upstream not to die > under these conditions. Ack, by this change the package (and its rdepends) are rather broken :/ Actually I'd prefer a patch; the one at CPAN is not really elegant, maybe we can come up with something more "elegant"? First attempt: Index: lib/MIME/Lite.pm =================================================================== --- lib/MIME/Lite.pm (revision 14794) +++ lib/MIME/Lite.pm (working copy) @@ -401,7 +401,7 @@ } } unless (-x $SENDMAIL) { - Carp::croak "can't find an executable sendmail" + Carp::carp "can't find an executable sendmail, you won't be able to use send_by_sendmail()" } } Cheers, gregor -- .''`. http://info.comodo.priv.at/ | gpg key ID: 0x00F3CFE4 : :' : debian: the universal operating system - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' member of https://www.vibe.at/ | how to reply: http://got.to/quote/ `- NP: Rod Stewart: Sweet Surrender
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