[Pkg-erlang-devel] Bug#573061: Split couchdb into separate packages (was: Re: Information about CouchDB)

[Kartik Mistry]

On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 4:14 PM, Sergei Golovan <sgolovan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 11:46 AM, David Paleino <dapal at debian.org> wrote:
>> On a side note, Ubuntu has a "couchdb-bin" package, which has been split from
>> "couchdb" to have it available without starting the system service. This is a
>> situation common to many packages, mysqld it's the first coming to mind.
>> Do you have any plan in splitting them? This way, the difference between
>> Debian and Ubuntu would just be a version number, without behavioural
>> differences (namely, the service starting at boot time).
>
> There's no plan to split couchdb into two separate packages. If it's
> very important to
> be able not to start couchdb service from init script then this may be
> made configurable
> via debconf (currently it starts unconditionally).

Ah. after long time.

#573061 also request to split package into couchdb and couchdb-bin.
AFAIK, this is needed for personal couchdb instance and application
like Gwibber (v2+) use it.

I request you to fix #573061 :)

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