Re: 1.8RC2?

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi David,

> Alexander wrote:
> > https://qa.debian.org/excuses.php?package=nmh
>
> It looks like that dependent package is xbiff.  Do you know how that
> is identified as a dependecy?  I don't see it as an explicit
> dependency in nmh itself.

Finding a Debian system, I think it's more that package xlbiff depends
on nmh.

    $ dep=Depends,PreDepends,Suggests,Recommends
    $ apt-rdepends -r -f $dep -s $dep nmh
    Reading package lists... Done
    Building dependency tree... Done
    Reading state information... Done
    nmh
      Reverse Depends: exmh (1:2.9.0-2)
      Reverse Depends: xlbiff (4.5.2-1)
    exmh
      Reverse Suggests: nmh (1.7.1-7)
      Reverse Recommends: muttprint (0.73-10)
    muttprint
    xlbiff
    $

Using apt-cache(1) to look forwards, I see:

    muttprint
        Enhances: mail-reader, news-reader
        Recommends: mutt | sylpheed | gnus | xfmail | exmh | mail-reader

    xlbiff
        Depends: nmh

    exmh
        Depends: nmh | mh, mime-support

    nmh
        Conflicts: mh
        Provides: mail-reader, mh
        Recommends: default-mta | mail-transport-agent
        Replaces: mh
        Suggests: exmh

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Cheers, Ralph.