dkimproxy tries to install amavisd-new

[Matt LaPlante]

Binary package hint: dkimproxy

The dkimproxy package states amavisd-new is a recommended (but not required) package:

matt@spooky:/tmp# grep amavis dkimproxy-1.0.1/debian/control
Recommends: amavisd-new

However, attempts to install this package automatically pull in amavisd-new:

matt@spooky:/tmp# apt-get install dkimproxy
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  amavisd-new libarchive-zip-perl libconvert-binhex-perl libconvert-tnef-perl libconvert-uulib-perl libcrypt-openssl-bignum-perl libcrypt-openssl-rsa-perl libio-stringy-perl
  libmail-dkim-perl libmime-tools-perl libtext-wrapper-perl libunix-syslog-perl
Suggested packages:
  clamav-daemon apt-listchanges libnet-ldap-perl dspam
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  amavisd-new dkimproxy libarchive-zip-perl libconvert-binhex-perl libconvert-tnef-perl libconvert-uulib-perl libcrypt-openssl-bignum-perl libcrypt-openssl-rsa-perl
  libio-stringy-perl libmail-dkim-perl libmime-tools-perl libtext-wrapper-perl libunix-syslog-perl
0 upgraded, 13 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 1655kB of archives.
After this operation, 5337kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n
Abort.

I see no reason for this; dkimproxy should work fine on its own, and I have no desire to have amavisd on the system. Why is apt trying to force me to install a recommendation?

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

Apt installing recommendations by default is the normal configuration starting with Intrepid. You can change this. You can also remove amavisd-new and apt will not try to re-install it.

[Matt LaPlante (cybrmatt)]

Thanks Scott. One of these days I'll learn to read the release notes properly.