[pkg-lighttpd] Bug#739896: "Recommends: spawn-fcgi" violates Debian Policy

Frank Luithle f.luithle at gmail.com
Sun Feb 23 16:29:11 UTC 2014


Package: lighttpd
Version: 1.4.33-1+nmu2
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

lighttpd should not Recommend "spawn-fcgi", as that package is not needed at
all unless the user wants to actually use the FCGI interface.

Debian Policy prescribes that "The Recommends field should list packages that
would be found together with this one in all but unusual installations."

"lighttpd" without "spawn-fcgi" is not an unusual installation at all, so it
should not mention it in the "Recommends" field.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.12-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages lighttpd depends on:
ii  init-system-helpers         1.14
ii  libattr1                    1:2.4.47-1
ii  libbz2-1.0                  1.0.6-5
ii  libc6                       2.17-97
ii  libfam0                     2.7.0-17
ii  libldap-2.4-2               2.4.31-1+nmu2+b1
ii  libpcre3                    1:8.31-2
ii  libssl1.0.0                 1.0.1f-1
ii  libterm-readline-perl-perl  1.0303-1
ii  lsb-base                    4.1+Debian12
ii  mime-support                3.54
ii  perl                        5.18.2-2
ii  zlib1g                      1:1.2.8.dfsg-1

Versions of packages lighttpd recommends:
pn  spawn-fcgi  <none>

Versions of packages lighttpd suggests:
pn  apache2-utils  <none>
ii  openssl        1.0.1f-1
pn  rrdtool        <none>

-- no debconf information



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