Package: wordpress
Severity: normal
Wordpress depends on mysql-server (>= 4.0.20-8), but it cannot be
installed on a system that uses mysql-server-4.1. Please see the
following reply to a bug report I filed against the mysql 4.1
packages, which says that the problem is with the wordpress package
rather than the mysql packages.
From: sean finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Bug#298087: mysql-dfsg-4.1: mysql-4.1 packages should provide
mysql-server etc.
Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 12:54:47 -0500
hi matt,
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 10:54:31AM -0500, Matt Swift wrote:
> The mysql-{server,common,client}-4.1 packages do not satisfy packages
> that depend on mysql-{server,common,client} even when the version
> number is acceptable. For example, wordpress dependends on
> mysql-server (>= 4.0.20-8), but installing wordpress causes
> mysql-{server,common,client}-4.1 to be removed in favor of
> mysql-{server,common,client}, which are at version 4.0.23.
any package that needs a generic mysql server should depend on
"virtual-mysql-server", not "mysql-server". unfortunately
mysql-server-4.1 will not be able to provide mysql-server itself,
as many packages have a versioned dependency on mysql-server,
and debian does not have support for versioned virtual packages.
> I don't claim to know the best solution, but it seems to me that if
> the 4.1 pkgs provided the regular pkgs but with version number 4.1,
> then all would be well. Perhaps if mysql-{server,common,client} become
> virtual pkgs, then they can't have version numbers -- I don't know the
> system well enough, but I do think that installing wordpress should
> not force me to downgrade mysql unless I take special action.
you should file a bug against these packages to either depend on
virtual-mysql-server or "mysql-server | mysql-server-4.1" if they
have a specific version dependency.
so, i'm going to close this bug...
sean
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