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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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tags 739896 wontfix
thanks
Hi,
> 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.
That's not the point of the "Recommends" field. Recommends should be
used when a substantial amount of functionality of a package is missing
when the recommended package is not present, however it can still run
fine without it.
If you dislike this, you can override apt/aptitude not to install
recommended packages. That's why it is a recommended relationship, and
not a strong dependency.
This is exactly the case here. Everyone not using lighttpd to serve
static content only needs the spawn-fcgi package. Thus, I do not intend
to change the relationship to "Suggests".
Thanks for understanding.
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Arno Töll
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