Thanks for your bugreport and your patch.
I added more documentation about the need for the mailx package and
added it to the "Suggests" in debian/control and write a propper error
into the log if mailx is not available.
The reason why I didn't include your patch is that I would rather depend
on a properly configured local mailsystem than on an additional
configuration for the smtp server. Local working mail is required on a
server for stuff like cron mails anyway, so I think its ok to assume
that.
If you think that the smtplib based sending code is still useful for
certain setups, we can still include it and use it if no /usr/bin/mail
is available. Please let me know what you think!
Thanks,
Michael
** Changed in: unattended-upgrades (Ubuntu)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Michael Vogt (mvo)
Status: New => Fix Committed
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Undeclared dependency on mailx
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