[Pkg-nginx-maintainers] Bug#1082373: Bug#1082373: nginx: nginx missing pre-depends on nginx-common

[Jérémy Lal]

Please reply at the bottom.


> *From:* Michael Prokop <mika at debian.org>
> The configuration file `/etc/nginx/nginx.conf` is shipped only by
> the nginx-common package, though nginx doesn't pre-depend on it and
> therefore might get installed before nginx-common is present.
>


> Le ven. 20 sept. 2024 à 20:30, Thomas Ward <teward at thomas-ward.net> a
> écrit :
> PS: Probably should even be raised to RC bug?
>


> For the purposes of argument, the reason nginx I don't think pre-depends
> on nginx-common is because nginx itself can be pulled in by other
> packages that then want to maintain their own configuration and roll their
> own NGINX configuration files.
> While I definitely agree it should pre-depend on nginx-common or such, and
> this was the way in the past, I'm not sure if this is something that we
> (maintainers) need to fix, if the intent was to let people Depends: nginx and
> then roll their own config as part of a package install.
> I don't disagree this is a large issue, so on Salsa I'll do a pull request
> for this and then let us discuss on that level before inclusion.  This may
> end up wontfix if the intent is for people to install nginx *without* configuration
> and then roll their own or such.
>
> Thomas


I don't understand why nginx-common depends on nginx.
If it wasn't, it would be installed before nginx naturally.
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