Package: dwww
Version: 1.9.26
Severity: normal
'dwww' needs a web server that does CGI:
% dlocate -s dwww | grep Depends | sed 's/,.*//' # chop off text after the
comma
Depends: apache | httpd-cgi
While the README recommends 'boa':
% grep -nC 1 boa /usr/share/doc/dwww/README
10-dwww requires running a web server with CGI support (i.e. apache,
11:boa, roxen, wn, etc., but NOT dhttpd or fnord.)
12-Sorry.
...but 'boa' doesn't provide 'httpd-cgi':
% dlocate -s boa | grep Provide
Provides: httpd
# search list of packages that provide 'httpd-cgi'
% wget -q -O - http://packages.debian.org/unstable/virtual/httpd-cgi | grep
boa ; echo $?
1 # not found
The cause of these contradictions seems to be that one or more of
these is not currently accurate:
1) '/usr/share/doc/dwww/README'
2) the 'httpd-cgi' package list
3) the 'Provides:' field of 'boa'
4) the 'Depends:' field of 'dwww'
...but I dunno which. All I know for sure is that a while back an
upgrade of 'dwww' installed 'apache', when before it was happy with
'boa'. So today I was trying to decide if, (or why), my system (on PPP
dialup) needs two web servers installed -- and noticed the
contradiction described above.
Hope this helps...
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)
Versions of packages dwww depends on:
ii apache [httpd-cgi] 1.3.33-8 versatile, high-performance HTTP s
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.4.58 Debian configuration management sy
ii debianutils 2.15 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii doc-base 0.7.18-0.1 utilities to manage online documen
ii file 4.15-2 Determines file type using "magic"
ii libc6 2.3.5-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii man-db 2.4.3-3 The on-line manual pager
ii menu 2.1.26 generates programs menu for all me
ii perl 5.8.7-7 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii realpath 1.9.26 Return the canonicalized absolute
Versions of packages dwww recommends:
ii apt 0.6.41 Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii dlocate 0.5-0.1 fast alternative to dpkg -L and dp
ii info2www 1.2.2.9-23 Read info files with a WWW browser
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