On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 10:12 +0200, Bastian Venthur wrote: > 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. Even if a majority of our users will install the packages together, we will design the depends of a package to make sure the minimum, not average conditions, are met. Otherwise the people who do not want mysql-server on the same host (which is quite heavy) aren't even able to do so cleanly. Luckily we have other mechanisms to do what you request, Recommends and Suggests. Most packages I've seen that might use a MySQL-server, 'suggest' it. That seems sensible to me since it's not quite exceptional to have the MySQL server on a remote host. The wordpress package also does this. I recommend to have this practice included in the database-applications best practices, located here: http://people.debian.org/~seanius/policy/dbapp-policy.html/ I've CC'ed the debian-webapps list to that extent. Thijs
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