Re: Python-webpy: unnecessary Recommends?
[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
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