[request-tracker-maintainers] Bug#503454: Bug#503454: request-tracker3.6 - Only wants to work with apache2

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 09:41:51PM +0200, Niko Tyni wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 10:34:58AM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote:

> > The installation of request-tracker3.6 forcibly pull in apache2 while
> > there are much more fastcgi provider and they even may run on another
> > machine.
> 
> It would be nice to have an httpd-fastcgi virtual package for this.
> I have no idea about the possible alternatives; 'apt-cache search'
> suggests lighttpd and msp-webserver.
> 
> Hm, I see libapache2-mod-fastcgi indeed supports an external fastcgi
> server. Didn't know that.
> 
> Any suggestions for a better scheme? 

Perhaps we could just downgrade the dependency on rt3.8-apache2 to
Recommends (especially given RT now ships with a standalone fastcgi
server, which it didn't at the time this message was written)?

Dominic.

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