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debian x86info phoning home?



Is it just me, or does it look like the Debian x86info package is trying
to phone home, without my permission?

dual266:/home/bwindle# apt-get install x86info
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  x86info
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 8  not upgraded.
Need to get 29.8kB of archives. After unpacking 127kB will be used.
Get:1 http://http.us.debian.org testing/main x86info 1.11-7 [29.8kB]
Fetched 29.8kB in 0s (39.9kB/s)
debconf: delaying package configuration, since apt-utils is not installed
Selecting previously deselected package x86info.
(Reading database ... 16147 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking x86info (from .../x86info_1.11-7_i386.deb) ...
Setting up x86info (1.11-7) ...
mail: /usr/sbin/sendmail: No such file or directory
Can't send mail: sendmail process failed with error code 1

dual266:/home/bwindle# dpkg -l x86info
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
uppercase=bad)
||/ Name           Version        Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii  x86info        1.11-7         Display diagnostic information about i386 CP

--
Burton Windle                           burton@fint.org
Linux: the "grim reaper of innocent orphaned children."
          from /usr/src/linux-2.4.18/init/main.c:461



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