[Andrew Malcolmson, 2009-01-08] > I am installing Pylons in Aptitude and noticed that MySQL is one of > the automatic dependencies to be installed. It appears that the > responsible package is python-webpy which recommends python-mysqldb.
python-mysqldb depends on libmysqlclient15off so it should not install MySQL for you, python-mysqldb only suggests mysql-server-5.0 | mysql-server That said, I agree, python-mysqldb should be replaced with: python (>= 2.5) | python-pysqlite2 | python-pysqlite1.1 | python-sqlite | python-psycopg2 | python-mysqldb | python-kinterbasdb and README.Debian should mention that one should install one of above packages (depending on which DB is used) > Webpy does not require a database connection. Therefore I believe > the correct dependency is Suggests. apparently it uses one of: SQLite, PostgreSQL, Firebird, MySQL, Oracle to store it's data (see webpy-0.310/web/db.py) > Should I file a bug report for this? I never reported an issue like > this so I want to be sure I'm getting this right. please report it (try `reportbug webpy`) you can point webpy's maintainer to this mail (it will appear on [1]) > BTW: I'm also not sure why Pylons depends on webpy. Webpy isn't > mentioned in the Pylons Install Guide python-pylons does not depend on python-webpy [1] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/python-modules-team/2009-January/thread.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-python-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
