On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 02:58:36PM +0100, Axel Beckert wrote: > Hi, > > Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > > Control: retitle -1 libembperl-perl: postinst fails when > > libapache2-mod-perl2 is not installed > [...] > > I think it's probably a (long-standing, at least since 2009 when the package > > was imported into svn) bug that this package relationship is a > > Recommends rather than a Depends, > > No, that's on purpose. Embperl can run without mod_perl (on the > commandline, as CGI and via FastCGI), but that's not used very often. > So "Recommends" is the correct relationship.
Right. I was led astray by the alternate recommends on libfcgi-perl, but if it works on the command line too then I agree. > > and it's definitely a bug that the postinst script unconditionally > > tries to configure mod_perl even when libfcgi-perl is recommended as > > an alternative. > > That's the actual bug. > > I'll have a look at it. But I likely can't really fix it in Sid before > the FTBFS with Perl 5.22 (#806897) is fixed. *nod*. It's probably a candidate for a stable point release, but given the easy workaround, I don't think it's urgent. Cheers, Dominic.
