[Pkg-sympa-devel] Bug#726392: Bug#726392: sympa: Sympa may not depends on more than one DBD driver

Jonas Smedegaard dr at jones.dk
Sat Mar 22 23:14:02 UTC 2014


Quoting Emmanuel Bouthenot (2014-03-22 23:14:16)
> Xavier,
> 
> On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 12:26:12PM +0200, Xavier Guimard wrote:
> [...]
> 
> > In arch other than hppa, Sympa depends on libdbd-mysql-perl,
> > libdbd-pg-perl, libdbd-sqlite3-perl and libdbd-sybase-perl. I think that
> > it must depends only on libdbi-perl and must recommends one of those DBD
> > drivers:

I agree that that change makes sense.


> I fail to understand the reason of your proposal and which issue will 
> be solved with theses changes?
> 
> Moreover, the package will be unusable (for people like me) who never
> install recommends (especially on servers).

You are free to ignore recommends, but arguing that their well-defined 
meaning should be ignored in favor of your ignorance is flawed.


 - Jonas

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