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