Re: smtp authentication problem

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi,

CC: Debian's package maintainer

Tony wrote:
> I can see that the Debian libsasl2-2 package "recommends"
> libsasl2-modules, but in default I use 'Apt::Install-Recommends
> "false"' on the grounds that in general "true" drags down just too
> much unwanted dead wood.

I use that option too on APT systems, I expect that's quite common.

The nmh package in Debian's Testing depends on 'libsasl2-2 >=
2.1.27+dfsg2'.  https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/nmh

The modules package's description says

    https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/libsasl2-modules
    This package provides the following SASL modules: LOGIN, PLAIN,
    ANONYMOUS, NTLM, CRAM-MD5, and DIGEST-MD5 (with DES support).

Ken, Can nmh make any use of libsasl2-2 without libsasl2-modules also
being installed?  If not, then I wonder if nmh should depend on
libsasl2-modules instead of, or as well as, libsasl2-2 as otherwise it's
too easy for Debian users to have a needless installation of libsasl2-2
which also lures them into thinking all's well..

If libsasl2-2 is useful to nmh without libsasl2-modules then perhaps
nmh's package description should mention the extra package which is
required for authentication in this way.

-- 
Cheers, Ralph.