Installing Jove also installs sendmail
Bug #504940 reported by
MKrause
This bug affects 1 person
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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jove (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: jove
There may be two problems here.
1. Sendmail is listed as a recommended package for jove, which seems odd: Why would a (lightweight!) editor benefit from having an MTA installed?
2. Although it's listed as a recommendation and not a hard dependency, sendmail and friends (sendmail-cf, sendmail-base) get installed automatically.
This occurs in 9.10, 9.04, and some earlier releases. It occurs with the current jove package (4.16.0.70-3.1) and may also have occurred with previous versions.
Suggested outcome:
1) Jove neither installs nor recommends sendmail or
2) Jove recommends, but does not automatically install sendmail.
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jove have a boot script that emails edits in progress during shutdown. I suspect this is why it
pull in a mail server.