automysqlbackup requires postfix as depency

[Roger Sikorski]

Hello,

when i want to install automysqlbackup it will always install postfix as dependency. It would be fine if we can install automysqlbackup without Postfix (for not critical server, where no email notification is necesarry)

Greetings
Roger

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Jeff Reifman (n-jeff-k)]

This is a super useful and important package. Backing up MySQL easily on a recurring basis is super important.

Running Postfix on a server securely is quite a big burden and should not be a requirement.

In the meantime, if anyone can tell me how to safely disable postfix (despite reboot) while running this package, please let me know jeff at lookahead dot io.

Thanks!

[Antolin Thomas Janssen (antiftw)]

I realize that this is a really old post, but I see a status confirmed, but no further action. The "bug" still persists though, since I am testing an install script and figured I must have done something wrong, because the installing of AutoMySQLBackup also installed Postfix. But apparently this is a "feature"?

[Thomas Goirand (thomas-goirand)]

Hi,

I'm the package maintainer in Debian. The current dependencies for automysqlbackup are:

Depends:
 bsd-mailx | mailx,
 default-mysql-client | virtual-mysql-client,
 ${misc:Depends}

so there's no such thing as a dependency on Postfix. The only thing that may pull more, is the Recommends on the mutt package, but that's not at all a hard dependency.

So please close this bug. :)

Thomas Goirand (zigo)