"recommends" don't get installed by default. you therefore have a policy violation bug.
at the very least you need to notify people of the requirement. l. On Sat, May 20, 2006 at 01:18:40AM -0700, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report > #252082: kmail: program "lockfile" doesn't exist when requesting FCNTL mail > locking, > which was filed against the kmail package. > > It has been closed by Pierre HABOUZIT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. > > Their explanation is attached below. If this explanation is > unsatisfactory and you have not received a better one in a separate > message then please contact Pierre HABOUZIT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> by replying > to this email. > > Debian bug tracking system administrator > (administrator, Debian Bugs database) > > From: Pierre HABOUZIT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: kmail: program "lockfile" doesn't exist when requesting FCNTL > mail locking > X-Virus-Scanned: by ClamAV (using ClamSMTP) at hermes.madism.org > X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60-bugs.debian.org_2005_01_02 > (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on spohr.debian.org > X-Spam-Level: > X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.0 required=4.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_SORBS > autolearn=no version=2.60-bugs.debian.org_2005_01_02 > > On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 11:20:51AM +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > > Package: kmail > > Severity: normal > > > > > > hi, i am setting up a Debian / SE/Linux (unstable) system so i have > > kde 3.2.2 installed. > > > > permission to create a file /var/mail/lkcl.lock is banned, and i do > > not believe it sensible to grant access to that directory just to > > create a lock file! > > > > therefore i tried FCNTL instead. > > > > and... it doesn't work, because the command "lockfile" doesn't exist. > > > > so i did apt-get install lockfile-progs (which should be a dependency > > on kmail, shouldn't it? i dunno) but there doesn't appear to be a > > command lockfile in that package, only lockfile-create and stuff. > > > > help? > > > > l. > > kmail recommends procmail, that provides the necessary lockfile > command. > closing the bug > > -- > ·O· Pierre Habouzit > ··O [EMAIL PROTECTED] > OOO http://www.madism.org -- -- Mad Free Software Person, Visionary and Poet (http://lkcl.net)
