severity 379561 normal
thanks

On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 11:58:54AM +0200, Bastian Venthur wrote:

> Wordpress needs a mysqls-server on the system but does not depend on it.
> On a  system with no mysql-server pre-installed, a fresh wordpress
> installation will simply not work until you install mysql-server for
> yourself.

Or until you point your wordpress instance at the remote mysql server that
you already have installed.

Hence, this is a typical dependency on a network service, which is *not* the
customary use of the Depends: field, and there is no policy violation here.

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