Re: Dependencies for FastCGI
On 17/04/2012 05:43, Stefan Ott wrote:
> Hey mentors
>
> I have a question concerning one of my packages (fookebox). It
> currently depends on "libapache2-mod-wsgi | httpd-wsgi" since it's a
> web application that is typically called through WSGI. As requested in
> #667838, I now added the configuration files required to get it to run
> through FastCGI with python-flup. However, I am not entirely sure how
> to change my dependencies to indicate that this is a possibility.
>
> As I see it, one option would be to say that the package depends on
> either (libapache2-mod-wsgi | httpd-wsgi) or (libapache2-mod-fastcgi
> and python-flup). Yet a) I couldn't figure out the syntax to specify
> such a dependency and b) it would ignore the possibility of running
> FastCGI through anything other than libapache2-mod-fastcgi (there
> doesn't seem to be a virtual httpd-fastcgi package). Thus I figured
> the best way to do this is to change the current dependency into a
> recommendation (which would allow experienced admins to ignore it
> while still resulting in a working installation for people who don't
> care) and add libapache2-mod-fastcgi and python-flup as suggestions to
> indicate that they are supported and tested mechanisms. Or I could
> just leave that out and add a note about this possibility to
> README.Debian.
>
> So, before I start messing around, I was hoping that somebody might
> have some input on this. Any thoughts / suggestions?
There an (ongoing ?) discussion at :
http://bugs.debian.org/627213
Jérémy.
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