> Hi Thomas, > > please stop shouting, it doesnt help your cause. Ok, sorry if you think I've been rude. Everyone has his bad moments, this was one of mine for sure, apologies here... Lack of sleep, too much work this week-end, plus I had the feeling to not be understood here.
Now let me explain what is going on, maybe you can help by giving sugestions. MySQMail needs an SQL connection to the database of DTC. It is expecting that DTC is setup fully, as well as it's database, with granted access rights. The issue is that DTC can't set it up at postinst stage, because there would be all sorts of policy violations, as a package can't change another package conf file, wich it needs to. So things are done with a userland script that the user need to start to finish the installation. This is what mysqmail depends on!!! Now, give me the solution to this unsolvable issue and I will be very happy to send a fix to the archive. > On Sonntag, 24. Januar 2010, Thomas Goirand wrote: > > > Try on a minimal chroot and you will see that your package has > > > a problem. > > Have you tried this? You should. I don't need to, I know what's going on, I have tried to think about a solution, but didn't find it yet. I hope I will soon. > > It makes absolutely NO > > SENSE to just have mysqmail installed without DTC. It makes NO SENSE to > > not run the installer of DTC. > > So it's better to violate policy and break assumptions which are valid for > 25000 other binary packages? I don't think so. A package needs to install > cleanly, even if the moon is in a bad phase. Truth. But I'm unsure if there is a way to cleanly fix here without adding hasle for the users, which I don't want to... Also, the is not just yet another package, things are more compicated here. > P.S. my reply probably would have been less ironic if you didnt ask for it so > LOUDLY, MAN. Sure. Forgive my attitude, let me have a rest, think about it, and come back with a solution later on. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
