On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 13:35 -0500, David F. Skoll wrote: > I think that's a bug. It should be "suggests", because AFAIK apt-get > now pulls in "recommends" packages unless you tell it otherwise.
As an aside, I was never a fan of this change, as it seems to lead to exactly this. > There are at least two good reasons to want to run MIMEDefang on a machine > that isn't also running Sendmail, so the Debian policy should change. One of those is that you'd want to use Postfix, "Recommends: sendmail | postfix" (or even Depends, from my last email) should address that one. What's the other use? Is it to run watch-mimedefang? If that's the case, maybe that should just be split out into a separate package. I see there's already an open bug suggesting that. Richard
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