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

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 04:33:45PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:

> 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.

Yup, that's what I assumed but wanted to double check.

> > * 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?

Ah, okay, I'm probably dreaming then; it does seem like it's the
standard way to do things at the moment. Thanks for the clarification.

Dominic.

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