[Please reply-to all] On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 08:09:53PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 11:57:06AM +0200, Peter Gervai wrote: > > > The configuration script calls dbconfig while it is not yet installed. > > As I understand it this is okay. Pre-Depends should be "used sparingly, > preferably only by packages whose premature upgrade or installation > would hamper the ability of the system to continue with any upgrade that > might be in progress." and indeed the installation does continue > successfully. The author of dbconfig-common suggests that it shouldn't > need to be installed with Pre-Depends, so I am not inclined to change > this now so close to the release of lenny. > > Leaving the bug open though, for future discussion, since I do realise > it is somewhat confusing to have the error.
On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 02:07:07PM -0300, Paulo Marcondes wrote: > I just proceeded to install movable type and then I was confused by the error > mentioned, as was foreseen. > > movabletype-opensource should really pre-depend on dbconfig-common. > > Although admins responsible for blog instalation and maintenace should already > know that the engine depended on a DB server, many users could install just to > learn, fiddle, whatever and not know better - as myself. What's the correct thing to do here? I'm afraid I can't come up with the reference for the "author of dbconfig-common suggests" thing. I'm also not sure why, for example, this comes up here but not in, for example, request-tracker3.8. Any help appreciated. Cheers, Dominic. -- Dominic Hargreaves | http://www.larted.org.uk/~dom/ PGP key 5178E2A5 from the.earth.li (keyserver,web,email) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
