Comment 5 for bug 465833

I'll look into it in about 8 hours :)

I had a quick glance now and couldn't find the dep that was pulling in
postfix in the first place!

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 6:09 PM, Didier Roche <email address hidden> wrote:

> I partially agree.
>
> If you want the whole story, here it is:
> - Quickly ubuntu-project template used devscripts at the beginning (with
> debuild/debuild -S).
> - Seeing that we were pooling postfix (and the associated debconf
> questions), rick and I decided to use dpkg-buildpackage instead. That's what
> is done.
> - But Quickly is calling python-mkdebian from distutils-extra package which
> uses debchange, part of devscripts but don't depend on it. It's only
> suggested.
> After talking to pitti, as python-mkdebian is just a minor command in
> distutils-extra, he keeps it as suggested, not depend.
>
> So, here is the trick, we can put it again as a recommends, but that
> will move us back to our first issue...
>
> Care to open a bug on devscripts to ask removing postfix requirement?
>
> --
> quickly should suggest devscripts
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/465833
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