Your message dated Sun, 17 Feb 2008 23:47:05 +0000 with message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and subject line Bug#465342: fixed in libmime-lite-perl 3.021-3 has caused the Debian Bug report #465342, regarding libmime-lite-perl: Unusable without mail-transport-agent to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: libmime-lite-perl Version: 3.021-2 Severity: important [quoting from #462314] > On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 14:27:30 -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: > > > libmime-lite-perl depends on nullmailer | mail-transport-agent. > > However, libmime-lite-perl does not actually need an MTA unless the > > caller wants to send a mail using the sendmail method. > > libmime-lite-perl can also generate MIME messages and send them via > > SMTP, or return them as a string. Thus, this makes an MTA *at most* a > > Recommends. I would argue for Suggests, since I do not believe > > libmime-lite-perl needs an MTA "in all but unusual installations". You may believe this, but this doesn't make it true :) > Thanks for your bugreport. > > 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache policy libmime-lite-perl libmime-lite-perl: Installed: 3.021-2 Candidate: 3.021-2 Version table: *** 3.021-2 0 500 http://the.earth.li sid/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ which sendmail [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ perl -MMIME::Lite can't find an executable sendmail at - line 0 Compilation failed in require. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted. (cf http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=464292) Please reinstate the dependency you removed, or patch upstream not to die under these conditions. Thanks, Dominic.
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--- Begin Message ---Source: libmime-lite-perl Source-Version: 3.021-3 We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of libmime-lite-perl, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive: libmime-lite-perl_3.021-3.diff.gz to pool/main/libm/libmime-lite-perl/libmime-lite-perl_3.021-3.diff.gz libmime-lite-perl_3.021-3.dsc to pool/main/libm/libmime-lite-perl/libmime-lite-perl_3.021-3.dsc libmime-lite-perl_3.021-3_all.deb to pool/main/libm/libmime-lite-perl/libmime-lite-perl_3.021-3_all.deb A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is attached. Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you have further comments please address them to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate. Debian distribution maintenance software pp. Dominic Hargreaves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (supplier of updated libmime-lite-perl package) (This message was generated automatically at their request; if you believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing [EMAIL PROTECTED]) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 23:04:21 +0000 Source: libmime-lite-perl Binary: libmime-lite-perl Architecture: source all Version: 3.021-3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian Perl Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Changed-By: Dominic Hargreaves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Description: libmime-lite-perl - Perl5 module for convenient generation of MIME messages Closes: 465342 Changes: libmime-lite-perl (3.021-3) unstable; urgency=low . * Patch upstream to not die if sendmail is not available (closes: #465342) * Remove build-dependency on nullmailer | mail-transport-agent (possible as a result of the above change) Files: d7608e6f9813c3de8f5cc002fe6d70f4 1117 perl optional libmime-lite-perl_3.021-3.dsc d982f309f1cbf69f748b6e37d4b2c6d0 4537 perl optional libmime-lite-perl_3.021-3.diff.gz 83d32455e02c666241976180d750f5f0 74490 perl optional libmime-lite-perl_3.021-3_all.deb -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHuMMQYzuFKFF44qURAtpQAKC7FdfKo5c4rHWxoLRRZ2TwMmUEJgCgvKm+ 8wiVeDf0V6Xp2dHoNC2eoOo= =Wh2k -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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