[imp] New required dependency

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Arjen de Korte <arjen+horde at de-korte.org>:

> Citeren Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org>:
>
>> Quoting Arjen de Korte <arjen+horde at de-korte.org>:
>>
>>> Citeren Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org>:
>>>
>>>> Quoting azurIt <azurit at pobox.sk>:
>>>>
>>>>> IMP 6.2.4 introduces new required dependency:
>>>>
>>>> You mean 6.2.5.
>>>>
>>>>> Will upgrade channel://pear.horde.org/imp
>>>>> Unknown remote channel: phpseclib.sourceforge.net
>>>>> horde/imp requires package  
>>>>> "channel://phpseclib.sourceforge.net/File_ASN1"
>>>>> No valid packages found
>>>>> upgrade-all failed
>>>>>
>>>>> Is this ok? Why it suddenly needs this strange package from  
>>>>> external source?
>>>>
>>>> To parse badly formatted S/MIME data.
>>>
>>> Might be worth a note in http://www.horde.org/apps/imp/docs/UPGRADING.
>>
>> Why?
>>
>> We've never added notes to UPGRADING before when adding new package  
>> dependencies.  And I don't see any reason to start now.
>
> Because these would not require registering additional PEAR  
> channels? One can assume that 'pear.php.net' and 'pear.horde.org'  
> are registered, because these are either required by PEAR or was  
> registered during the initial Horde installation (per the  
> instructions in http://www.horde.org/apps/horde/docs/INSTALL). Any  
> additional packages from these channels required should be good to  
> go. Howevere, the requirement for the 'phpseclib.sourceforge.net'  
> channel is mentioned nowhere in the Horde documentation, so it would  
> be helpful if this was mentioned somewhere.
>
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Agreed, and I would go even further. We never *required* packages from  
other channels than Horde and PEAR before. This could be added as an  
optional dependency, but not as a required one.

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