[pkg-fetchmail-maint] Bug#582475: Bug#582475: Bug#582475: fetchmail: init script should wait for DNS

[Matthias Andree]

Am 21.05.2010 15:39, schrieb Nico Golde:
> Hi,
> * Jan Braun <janbraun at gmx.net> [2010-05-21 13:38]:
>> Fetchmail's init script should probably depend on exim4 and $named,
>> rather than just $network. At least here, with dependency-based boot
>> enabled, the first run always fails because DNS (a local pdnsd) is not
>> yet available when fetchmail is started ($network implies only low-level
>> networking). Similarly, fetchmail will usually need an MTA running, so
>> I've added a dependency on exim4 too (as precaution, I didn't experience
>> any failures due to this missing). There doesn't seem to be a $mta
>> target, but you could add other MTAs too if you care.
> 
> I tend to disagree, you don't need a local nameserver or mta installed in 
> order to use fetchmail so I can't follow you on why it makes sense to depend 
> on those components with the init script.

What harm would it do to make sure that fetchmail always starts *after*
name services and MTAs are up and running, if such are installed and
configured?  I take it this is about init script *execution order*, not
actual *dependencies*.