On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 11:54:02AM +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > When I installed 'sympa' I got the following error messages in my log: > > [Mon May 16 17:06:13 2011] [warn] [client 137.56.126.19] mod_fcgid: stderr: > Can't locate Socket6.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/share/sympa/lib > /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.10.1 /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.1 > /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.10 /usr/share/perl/5.10 > /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at /usr/share/perl5/IO/Socket/SSL.pm line 73., > referer: > > After installing libsocket6-perl: > > [Tue May 17 17:51:07 2011] [warn] [client 137.56.126.19] mod_fcgid: stderr: > Can't locate IO/Socket/INET6.pm in @INC (@INC contains: > /usr/share/sympa/lib /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.10.1 > /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.1 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 > /usr/lib/perl/5.10 > /usr/share/perl/5.10 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at > /usr/share/perl5/IO/Socket/SSL.pm line 75., referer: > > Sympa recommends libio-socket-ssl-perl, so I got that automatically, however, > I failed to get libio-socket-inet6-perl because libio-socket-ssl-perl only > suggests that. There is no way to find out that you need to install these > two packages when installing sympa and you can only get to this indirectly. > Afterall, users hardly ever install libio-socket-ssl-perl directly, and only > in that case will they see its Suggests. > > It seems libsocket6-perl is missing altogether. Attached patch adds both > as a recommends for libio-socket-ssl-perl. This means they will get the > full functionality by default. I think that IPv6 is now at a point and/or > will definately get to such a point in our next release that a > default-supported policy makes sense. Recommends still allows you to remove > it if you don't want it.
This is a similar case to <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=615281> Because there's no way for a package to say "I depend on foo only if the system is configured with IPv6" I actually think this should be a Depends rather than Recommends, if it breaks without just because IPv6 is configured on the system. -- Dominic Hargreaves | http://www.larted.org.uk/~dom/ PGP key 5178E2A5 from the.earth.li (keyserver,web,email) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
