Re: apt-get should correctly process dependencies
On Wed, Apr 26, 2000 at 03:50:53PM +0000, Pedro Miguel Guerreiro wrote:
> Package mailx has broken dep on smail
This is fine, because it's:
Depends: libc6, smail | mail-transport-agent
> Package mailx has broken dep on mail-transport-agent
> Considering zmailer-ssl 0 as a solution to mailx 8
> Holding Back mailx rather than change mail-transport-agent
Now this is wrong, it should have picked zmailer-ssl. Anyway, there should
be other packages providing mail-transport-agent, not just zmailer-ssl...
> From what I can see, the problem is with smail. mailx depends on smail,
> but it should depend on exim, as this is the default MTA on a Debian
> system.
That shouldn't be the cause of this problem, although changing the
dependency would be good :)
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