Hi DDs, I recently stumbled upon a bug (#379561) in wordpress. Wordpress depends on a mysql-server installed in order to run, but the Debian package wordpress does not.
I filled a bugreport and the answer was that some users might want to connect wordpress to a remote mysql-server so the local mysql-server is not really needed. Although I really doubt that this is the standard use-case for the vast majority of our users and we should support this by default, I understand the problem. On the other side, not depending on mysql-server leaves the user with a not working installation of wordpress. Furthermore after the user eventually fixed the problem by installing mysql-server it leaves the problem that the mysql-server is not automatically removed on removal of wordpress. Since wordpress is not the only package depending on mysql-server, I'd like to ask how other developers dealt with this problem? My proposal to satisfy both use-cases was, to provide two versions of wordpress: (1) wordpress -- depends on mysql-server (2) wordpress-remotesql -- does not the solution was rejected by the maintainer (and the bug marked as minor and wontfix BTW). What is the preferred solution for this kind of problem? Best regards, Bastian -- Bastian Venthur http://venthur.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
