Hi Justin, Justin B Rye schrieb: > Package: mimedefang > Version: 2.63-2 > Severity: minor > > As I mentioned on debian-l10n-english while we were reviewing the > debconf templates (see bug #461013), mimedefang's package > dependencies seem a bit weak. Of course, not being a user of > MIMEDefang I may be barking up the wrong tree, but I thought I'd > better put this in the BTS anyway. > > > 1) The debconf template mimedefang/embedperl asks the admin whether > MIMEDefang should use the embedded Perl interpreter (defaulting > to "true"), but there's no package dependency on eperl. > > Shouldn't there be at least a "Suggests: eperl"? It might even make > sense for MIMEDefang to detect whether eperl's installed, and use it > automatically if so. Or if there are reasons why an admin might > want not to use an available embedded Perl interpreter for > MIMEDefang, shouldn't these issues be referred to in the text of > mimedefang/embedperl?
eperl is not the same as embeded perl. You don't need a different perl
package to use mimedefang with the embedded perl feature. You just have
to call mimedefang in a different way to make it to make it reuse the
same perl interpreter for new mimedefang request instead of calling a
perl process for each instance etc.
eperl in contrast is a programm which lets you embed perl statements in
ASCII files.
> 2) The package description says it's designed specifically for use
> with Sendmail (indeed it used to specify a minimum version), but
> the dependencies only make it a Recommends.
>
> Are there in fact other ways of using MIMEDefang that don't involve
> (locally installed) Sendmail, or should it be a Depends?
The milter interfaces allows you to call the filter processes via
different ways of communication. The default ist to use a unix socket,
but you can use a tcp socket instead. This enables you to put the filter
process on a different machine alltogether. This is why there is no hard
depends on sendmail for mimedefang.
Christoph
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