This is getting off-topic on -devel, kindly follow-up to -publicity only. On Mi, 11 ian 12, 20:51:55, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 01/10/2012 06:03 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > > This is a proposed entry for next debian-news: > > > > In a message to debian-devel[1] Thomas Goirand proposed relaxing or even > > removing some dependencies of web applications on a web server package. > > > I'd agree with the above *if* you add: > because most applications written in PHP depends on libapache2-mod-php5 > | php5, > which *by default*, would install a web server anyway. > > I never proposed that by default, a web server shouldn't be installed. > I think it should (like everyone in this thread, I guess)! :) I was just trying to inform, as neutral and as non-technical as possible, about what you wrote ;) On Vi, 06 ian 12, 15:56:37, Thomas Goirand wrote: > So, my suggestion would be to actually *remove* the dependency to the > web server (and move it as a Recommends: if you see fit...). I would > strongly advocate for this as being written in our beloved policy. As far as I'm concerned I could try to rewrite the whole paragraph like: "In a recent thread on debian-devel it was discovered that even many Debian Developers are not aware of equivs, ..." but it would make is sound like an advertisement, which I wanted to avoid :) Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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