* Matus UHLAR - fantomas via Postfix-users <[email protected]> [260404 
05:51]:
> > Greg Klanderman via Postfix-users:
> > > CC'ing Michael Tokarev, the Debian package maintainer.
> > > 
> > > IMO it seems like maybe postfix should require libsasl2-modules, the
> > > 300kB is well spent if you're installing postfix, rather than silently
> > > failing.
> 
> On 03.04.26 14:58, Wietse Venema via Postfix-users wrote:
> > Is Debian SASL support usable at all, without installing libsasl2-modules?
> 
> libsasl2-modules is hard dependency in Debian, you can't install postfix
> without it.
> 
> libsasl2-modules provides modules for sasl authentication, postfix works
> without it, cyrus-based authentication (client or server-size) does not.
> 
> Dovecot-based (server-side only) authentication works without this.
> so I don't wonder why postfix' dependence on it is relaxed to Suggests:
> (Recommends: are installed by default, you can disable it)

The postfix package appears to have been removed from Debian testing,
but both stable and unstable packages have:

Depends:  libsasl2-2
Suggests:  libsasl2-modules | dovecot-common

And libsasl2-2 (both stable and unstable) has:

Depends: libsasl2-modules-db
Recommends: libsasl2-modules

So libsasl2-modules is not a hard dependency of postfix (unless I missed
some other dependency chain), but it is installed by default, unless you
have specified --no-install-recommends.

...Marvin

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