Re: Dependencies for FastCGI
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 18:07, Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org> wrote:
> On 04/17/2012 11:43 AM, 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.
>>
>
> Please don't be so prompt into deciding how a python code will be
> executed by the web server. I use, and maintain SBOX, which is a
> cgi wrapper, and which can run python scripts. This doesn't need
> at all FCGI. I'd be very surprised if WSGI was needed in this case.
Indeed, I think the way I'm currently doing it is wrong.
>> 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).
>
> Another option is to not depend on anything, let the admin decide,
> and just make suggestions in the README.Debian. Another way
> would be to just use Suggest: or Recommends: (which isn't forcing
> anyone into doing what it doesn't want).
Yup, I moved the dependencies to Recommends:, that's probably the best
solution for now.
cheers
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Stefan Ott
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