[Bug 3969] mysql-server not valid package for bug report

[dominicblythe]

Public bug report changed:
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/3969

Comment:
Daniel, I'm not sure if it's your job to explain this
but I don't know who else to ask.

mysql-server depends on mailx
mailx depends on postfix

what's mailx?
why isn't mysql-server happy with my default sendmail
installation?
does ubuntu not have a default sendmail installation?
why does mysql need to send mail? I've had many mysql
installations on other OS that didn't have a
configured mta.
does the pipe in the mailx Depends denote alternative,
ie if i had an mta installed, it wouldn't have
installed postfix?

Sorry to be a hassle.

--- Daniel Holbach <daniel.holbach at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> Public bug report changed:
> https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/3969
> 
> Comment:
> mailx is the culprit.
> 
> daniel at lovegood:~$ apt-cache show mysql-server |
> grep Depends
> Depends: mysql-common (>= 4.0.24-10ubuntu2),
> mysql-client (>= 4.0.24-10ubuntu2), debconf (>=
> 1.2.9), libdbi-perl, perl (>= 5.6), libc6 (>=
> 2.3.4-1), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.0.1), libmysqlclient12,
> libstdc++6 (>= 4.0.1), libwrap0, zlib1g (>=
> 1:1.2.1), adduser (>= 3.40), psmisc, passwd, mailx
> daniel at lovegood:~$ apt-cache show mailx | grep
> Depends
> Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.4-1), liblockfile1 (>= 1.0),
> postfix | mail-transport-agent, base-files (>=
> 2.2.0)
> daniel at lovegood:~$
> 
> I'm closing this as NOTABUG. mysql-server just needs
> a 'sendmail'
> command to work.
> 


		
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