Am Sonntag, den 05.09.2010, 13:51 +0200 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard: > Hi Felix, > > You should install libdbd-pg-perl, which is the Debian package providing > DBD::Pg. > > In principle sympa already provides this dependency, but only as a > fallback for libdbd-mysql-perl which is not ideal. > > I suggest we keep this bugreport open (but maybe lower the severity) > until we offer a more reliable grouping of database-related > dependencies. > > Concrete idea of approach: > > * provide metapackages sympa-mysql, sympa-postgres etc. which each > depend on the needed DBD::* package and recommends the > possibly-remote database daemons. > * have sympa depend on either of those metapackages instead of > directly on either of the libs + daemons > > What do others feel about this? > > Do you imagine that would have helped you at your level of expertise in > juggling with packages, Felix? > > > Regards, > > - Jonas >
OK, I should have looked closer to the dependencies of sympa. Then I would have seen this myself. I am ok with either closing or lowering the severity of this bug. On the other hand, why cannot sympa depend on all the libdbd-*-perl packages? If I select postgres I should have it installed, but not necessarily the libdbd-*perl package. All of them should be at least a suggestion if not a recommendation or dependency of sympa. -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen Felix Koop
