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

[Dominic Hargreaves]

Control: retitle -1 libembperl-perl: postinst fails when libapache2-mod-perl2 is not installed

On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 05:34:49PM +0100, bugs at rcdrun.com wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 04:26:27PM +0000, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Forwarding your response to the bug report; please make sure you
> > including that when replying.
> > 
> > What happens if you run
> > 
> > a2enmod zembperl
> > 
> > by hand (without -q -m)?
> 
> 
> sudo a2enmod zembperl
> Considering dependency perl for zembperl:
> ERROR: Module perl does not exist!
> ERROR: Could not enable dependency perl for zembperl, aborting

Okay, I guess you have your system configured to not install
Recommends. As such you will need to install libapache2-mod-perl2 and
I suspect this will fix your installation problem (as a workaround).

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, 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.

Dominic.