[request-tracker-maintainers] Dependency on mysql-client and postgres-client?

[Niko Tyni]

On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 01:29:08PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
 
> In order to fix piuparts errors, I've removed the dependencies
> on mysql-client-5.0 and postgresql-client-8.3 leaving just
> mysql-client and postgresql-client, but does anyone know:
> 
> * why we depended on the versions packages at all?

Back when they were originally added in SVN r399 they were

+ sqlite3 | postgresql-client-8.3 | postgresql-client (>= 7.4)
+  | mysql-client-5.0 | mysql-client (>= 4.0.13),

so I suppose there were major transitions ongoing for both and
I wanted to support both versions.

I doubt there's any need for the versioned names anymore.

> * why we depend on the client packages at all? They're not needed
>   for the correct operation of RT or the debian packages scripts as
>   far as I know, and the dbconfig-common infrastructure should pull them
>   in as needed. We could recommend/suggest them for people wishing to do
>   manual maintenance on the database.

According to the changelog, this was a workaround for #353617 in
dbconfig-common. The bug is still open; does dbconfig-common really
now pull them in as needed?
-- 
Niko