[Dbconfig-common-devel] Bug#499598: movabletype-opensource: seems to depend on dbconfig-common, should be pre-depends

[Dominic Hargreaves]

[Please reply-to all]

On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 08:09:53PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 11:57:06AM +0200, Peter Gervai wrote:
> 
> > The configuration script calls dbconfig while it is not yet installed.
> 
> As I understand it this is okay. Pre-Depends should be "used sparingly,
> preferably only by packages whose premature upgrade or installation
> would hamper the ability of the system to continue with any upgrade that
> might be in progress." and indeed the installation does continue
> successfully. The author of dbconfig-common suggests that it shouldn't
> need to be installed with Pre-Depends, so I am not inclined to change
> this now so close to the release of lenny.
> 
> Leaving the bug open though, for future discussion, since I do realise
> it is somewhat confusing to have the error.

On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 02:07:07PM -0300, Paulo Marcondes wrote:

> I just proceeded to install movable type and then I was confused by the error
> mentioned, as was foreseen.
> 
> movabletype-opensource should really pre-depend on dbconfig-common.
> 
> Although admins responsible for blog instalation and maintenace should already
> know that the engine depended on a DB server, many users could install just to
> learn, fiddle, whatever and not know better - as myself.

What's the correct thing to do here? I'm afraid I can't come up with
the reference for the "author of dbconfig-common suggests" thing.

I'm also not sure why, for example, this comes up here but not in,
for example, request-tracker3.8.

Any help appreciated.

Cheers,
Dominic.

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