severity 1082373 serious thanks * Thomas Ward [Fri Sep 20, 2024 at 06:27:30PM +0000]:
> For the purposes of argument, the reason nginx I don't think > pre-depends on nginx-common is because nginx itself can be pulled > in by other packages that then want to maintain their own > configuration and roll their own NGINX configuration files. > While I definitely agree it should pre-depend on nginx-common or > such, and this was the way in the past, I'm not sure if this is > something that we (maintainers) need to fix, if the intent was to > let people Depends: nginx and then roll their own config as part > of a package install. > I don't disagree this is a large issue, so on Salsa I'll do a pull > request for this and then let us discuss on that level before > inclusion. This may end up wontfix if the intent is for people to > install nginx without configuration and then roll their own or > such. I'm not claiming that the only way to solve this is adding a "Pre-Depends: nginx-common" on the nginx package. But the current as-is status is clearly broken. If someone installs the nginx package on Debian testing/unstable, the package installation fails, which is an RC bug. regards -mika-
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