At Tue, 29 Jul 2014 17:29:46 +1000, Brian May wrote: > > On 29 Jul 2014 16:44, "Wouter Verhelst" <w...@uter.be> wrote: > > No, I don't. > > > > What brian really wants is apache2 or apache2-bin. In the case of > > apache2-bin, he needs an additional dependency on libapache2-mod-wsgi. > > > > Really, it should be > > > > apache2 | libapache2-mod-wsgi, apache2 | apache2-bin > > > > to do so. > > Not sure I see how this is any better than just: > > libapache2-mod-wsgi, apache2 > > (Which is what lintian warned me against using) > > Installing libapache2-mod-wsgi and apache2-bin without apache2 is > insufficient, for Apache support to work, I need > /usr/share/apache2/apache2-maintscript-helper which requires apache2 to be > installed. So > we can replace that 2nd term with just apache2.
As far as I can see this is a bug in the apache2 packaging. The httpd virtual package should be provided by the apache2 package, not the apache2-bin package, because the apache2-bin package doesn't provide a working webserver. Bug report I just filed about this: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=756361 > Similarly, installing apache2 without libapache2-mod-wsgi would meet your > depends but not really be satisfactory. > > Either way, it sounds like I should be ignoring Lintian. No, lintian is correct and should not be ignored. Depending on only apache2 makes it hard to run other webservers. There is a also httpd-wsgi virtual package: https://packages.debian.org/sid/httpd-wsgi A policy bug about what httpd-wsgi should provide is still open however: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=588497 It isn't very easy to specify what httpd-wsgi should mean, because some WSGI servers are full webservers with WSGI support such as apache and others like gunicorn are only supposed to run behind a proxying server such as apache or nginx (similar to for example php-fpm). So as far as I can see, the correct dependency should be: Depends: libapache2-mod-wsgi | httpd-wsgi, apache2 | httpd So it also possible to run other webservers. Kind regards, Jeroen Dekkers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/878unco7rv.wl%jer...@dekkers.ch
