Hi Josh,

Thanks for the bug report,

On Wed, July 8, 2009 10:14, Josh Triplett wrote:
> Package: libapache2-mod-dnssd
> Version: 0.6-1
> Severity: normal
>
> Please see bug 536200 for background.
>
> gnome-desktop-environment 1:2.26+0 depends on gnome-user-share.
> gnome-user-share depends on apache2.2-bin and libapache2-mod-dnssd.
> Thanks to recent changes in the apache2 packaging as of version
> 2.2.11-5, apache2.2-bin just contains the web server binaries, not the
> init scripts to start a system daemon or the whole /etc/apache2
> hierarchy.  However, libapache2-mod-dnssd pulls in apache2.2-common,
> which includes the /etc/apache2 hierarchy and other things undesirable
> on a system not running a system-wide Apache webserver.
>
> Could you please remove the dependency on apache2.2-common?  I looked
> through the libapache2-mod-dnssd package, and as far as I can tell it
> only uses apache2.2-common (and its dependency apache2-utils) in the
> prerm, where it optionally calls a2dismod.  This code could trivially
> check for a2dismod before calling it, to avoid a dependency.

Ok, after reading three times and looking at the bug leading to the -bin
split, I finally got it. Rather than simply removing the apache2.2-common
dependency, I plan to replace it with a dependency on -bin. Any objection
with that ?

Thanks again

Regis



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