retitle 599667 apt-listchanges: Please ignore a missing MTA, and downgrade Recommends on an MTA to a Suggests thanks
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 12:35:47PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > On Sun, 10 Oct 2010 16:55:40 -0700 > Josh Triplett <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 02:20:34PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > > On Sat, Oct 09, 2010 at 03:14:18PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > > > > apt-listchanges recommends exim4 | mail-transport-agent. However, > > > > apt-listchanges works perfectly well when just displaying the > > > > list of changes to a pager at install time, and only needs an MTA > > > > if mailing the list of changes elsewhere. Please consider > > > > downgrading the dependency to a suggestion, to avoid pulling in > > > > an MTA by default (since recommends now get installed by default). > > > > > > Default apt-listchanges configuration sends mails, and I'm unsure > > > this should change. > > > > What if the default apt-listchanges configuration sent mails iff you > > have an MTA installed, and silently ignored a missing MTA (since the > > user evidently doesn't want local mail in that case)? Then I wouldn't > > even need to change the apt-listchanges default configuration for > > where to send mail to not send it anywhere. > > > > Under those circumstances, "Suggests" seems appropriate. > > True, this makes sense, though for now I think it throws an > exception :) I've discovered that, yes. :) > But yes, this does make sense. Thanks! I've retitled this bug accordingly. - Josh Triplett -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
