[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#774310: sbuild: libsbuild-perl should demote Depends on "exim4 | mail-transport-agent, schroot" to Recommends

[Johannes Schauer]

Hi,

On Wed, 31 Dec 2014 16:13:55 +0100 Johannes Schauer <j.schauer at email.de> wrote:
> firstly, libsbuild-perl currently has a hard dependency on "exim |
> mail-transport-agent" even though it runs just fine without a sendmail binary
> being installed. Looking through the code, none of the calls to functions
> that end up invoking sendmail (send_mail, ll_send_mail and send_build_log)
> check for successful completion. Thus, sbuild runs fine without "exim |
> mail-transport-agent", just with reduced functionality.  Additionally,
> sending reports by email is hardly useful when not running as a buildd.
> Furthermore, mail transport agents will start a service in the background
> which has to be manually disabled. It would be great if sbuild could be
> installed without having to either run a new service in the background or
> having to disable it (which one might forget). It would thus be great if this
> Depends could be made a Recommends.

the patch needs a small addition to work in practice. Please find it attached.

cheers, josch
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