Please stop depending on mailx (or recommend nullmailer instead of exim4)
Bug #113753 reported by
Martijn vdS
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| signing-party (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: signing-party
All of signing-party, except for 'gpg-sendkeys', can work fine without mailx or an MTA (caff can use an SMTP server, for instance).
For this reason, signing-party depends on mailx which depends on an MTA. Most people don't want or need something like postfix or exim on their systems, and get confused when configuring it.
Please drop the dependency, or switch the Recommends: to something like nullmailer.
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| status: | Unconfirmed → Fix Released |
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If someone gets confused when configuring the default supplied mailserver, then the setup for that mailserver should be improved. Won't it just ask a debconf question that's not more difficult to understand than configuring a smtp host in caff is.
I don't understand your suggestion about nullmailer. SInce nullmailer provides mail-transport-
The whole point is that installing something like a MTA (whether it's postfix, exim or nullmailer) makes sure you've instantly configured a whole array of programs in one go. I dare say that it's more complex to set up an SMTP server in each and every application than it is to answer two debconf questions from a MTA.