Jan de Groot [2010.10.07 1926 +0200]: > 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. > Thanks for the reply Jan. ldd does say dovecot-auth is linked against these two libraries. I'll file a bug report then. Cheers, Norbert -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments
