Control: retitle -1 first dbc question could mention need for cmd-client On Mon, 16 Mar 2015 21:26:52 +0000 Dominic Hargreaves <[email protected]> wrote: > > I don't think this error message should be much longer, but I am open to > > improvements. I assume you have something like the following in mind? > > dbc_error="No $1 client to execute the maintainer scripts for the > > requested database type. (have you installed the > > ${dbc_dbclientpackage:-$1} package?)" > > > > By the way, it seems that the original bug was really about missing > > dependencies in movabletype-opensource of that version. But later > > versions had it correct and it is now removed anyways. > > I don't, no. It's a long time ago and as you say the related package > has been removed from unstable. I'm happy for you to close this if > as a maintainer you think no more action is needed.
I was about to close this issue, but I rather think that the first question that dbconfig-common asks could be extended to mention the fact that some packages may not depend on the command-line client, but instead recommend it. dbconfig-common can only work with the client installed, but also see bug 353617¹. Paul ¹ https://bugs.debian.org/353617
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