On Thu, 2010-10-07 at 13:16 -0300, Norbert Zeh wrote: > After some long debugging sessions, I realized that > my failure to connect to my freshly setup dovecot server was because > dovecot-auth failed. It was looking for the mysql and postgreql > shared > libraries that were not installed. If dovecot-auth links to the mysql and/or postgresql libraries, those libraries should not be in optdepends, but in depends. The problem with adding link-level dependencies for optional components to optdepends is that namcap doesn't know why you added the optdepend, and doesn't report any warning about link-level dependencies for optdepends. We've seen these bugs in several applications, so maintainers should really pay attention to this.
