[Bug 370445] Re: Postfix is dependancy for MySQL Server on server edition

[Andreas Olsson]

Well, strictly speaking it is indirectly installed as a Recommends. Had
it been a hard dependency you wouldn't have been able to remove postfix,
without also having your mysql-server-5.1 removed.

What happens is that mysql-server-5.1 recommends mailx, which depends on
bsd-mailx, which in turn recommends postfix (or other MTA).

This is a change compared to mysql-server-5.0 where mailx is only
Suggested, hence not installed automatically.

I agree that it's not really an expected behavior to have postfix
installed when you actually doing an mysql-server install. That said I'm
not entirely sure yet if this actually is a bug. Having a minimal MTA
(such as send-only) can more or less be considered a must on a standard
server.

For now I'll mark this bug as Incomplete, and ask for feedback on it.

** Package changed: mysql-dfsg-5.0 (Ubuntu) => mysql-dfsg-5.1 (Ubuntu)

** Changed in: mysql-dfsg-5.1 (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

** Summary changed:

- Postfix is dependancy for MySQL Server on server edition
+ MySQL-server-5.1 indirectly installs postfix

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MySQL-server-5.1 indirectly installs postfix
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/370445
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