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

[Axel Beckert]

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.

> 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.

		Regards, Axel
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