Sendmail started the libmilter thing to allow for plug-in mail filters. Other MTAs followed suit by incorporating the same interface so they could use Sendmail's milters. For the other MTAs to use it, they extracted Sendmail's libmilter library. In Gentoo, that's the "libmilter" package. The pymilter ebuild depends on the libmilter package, but it does not allow mail-mta/sendmail to provide that dependency (which is horribly ironic to me). Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install Sendmail 2. Try to install pymilter Actual Results: Sendmail is blocked Expected Results: Allow dependency on mail-mta/sendmail. This fixes it: 18c18 < DEPEND="mail-filter/libmilter" --- > DEPEND="|| ( mail-mta/sendmail mail-filter/libmilter )" If you really need emerge --info, I'll give it, but I don't think it's necessary for this.
This does indeed not lack a certain irony. ;-) I can modify the dependencies, alas I don't have any system with sendmail installed (and have not had one for years). I verified that the latest ebuilds of sendmail and libmilter install the same files in /usr/include/libmilter, so I expect pymilter to build correctly, but I cannot test this myself.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=04395b8ec2381094aea468661c0325bdea25da9c commit 04395b8ec2381094aea468661c0325bdea25da9c Author: Ralph Seichter <github@seichter.de> AuthorDate: 2019-10-15 14:51:24 +0000 Commit: Thomas Deutschmann <whissi@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2019-10-15 15:00:48 +0000 dev-python/pymilter: Fix libmilter dependency bug Ebuild now depends on libmilter XOR sendmail to provide the necessary library and header files. Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/697738 Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.76, Repoman-2.3.16 Signed-off-by: Ralph Seichter <gentoo@seichter.de> Closes: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/13311 Signed-off-by: Thomas Deutschmann <whissi@gentoo.org> dev-python/pymilter/{pymilter-1.0.4.ebuild => pymilter-1.0.4-r1.ebuild} | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
