Bug#810655: [bugs at rcdrun.com: Re: Bug#810655: libembperl-perl: post-installation script returned error]

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 02:58:36PM +0100, Axel Beckert wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> > Control: retitle -1 libembperl-perl: postinst fails when libapache2-mod-perl2 is not installed
> [...]
> > I think it's probably a (long-standing, at least since 2009 when the package
> > was imported into svn) bug that this package relationship is a
> > Recommends rather than a Depends,
> 
> No, that's on purpose. Embperl can run without mod_perl (on the
> commandline, as CGI and via FastCGI), but that's not used very often.
> So "Recommends" is the correct relationship.

Right. I was led astray by the alternate recommends on libfcgi-perl,
but if it works on the command line too then I agree.
 
> > and it's definitely a bug that the postinst script unconditionally
> > tries to configure mod_perl even when libfcgi-perl is recommended as
> > an alternative.
> 
> That's the actual bug.
> 
> I'll have a look at it. But I likely can't really fix it in Sid before
> the FTBFS with Perl 5.22 (#806897) is fixed.

*nod*.

It's probably a candidate for a stable point release, but given the easy
workaround, I don't think it's urgent.

Cheers,
Dominic.