Package: backuppc Version: 3.3.0-2 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer,
I think this app are a interesting option for mantain some backups, but, having some httpd package as required you're requesting to install an additional service on some servers who doesn't require it. As I can read on apt-cache: * A powerful http/cgi user interface allows administrators to view log files, configuration, current status and allows users to initiate and cancel backups and browse and restore files from backups very quickly. These option can be a good idea for some users, but, why make it mandatory? You can configure / manage app and read logs from console (The preferred way for manage a production server), and having httpd as required request some admins to have more packages than they required on the server, wasting resources and having more possible security breachs. Please change the package dependencies for httpd server to recommend or optional, not a required one. Thanks, -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.13-1-686-pae (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 Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) Versions of packages backuppc depends on: ii adduser 3.113+nmu3 ii apache2 [httpd] 2.4.10-8 ii apache2-mpm-worker [httpd] 2.4.10-8 ii apache2-utils 2.4.10-8 ii bzip2 1.0.6-7+b2 ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.54 ii dpkg 1.17.21 ii exim4 4.84-3 ii exim4-daemon-light [mail-transport-agent] 4.84-3 ii iputils-ping 3:20121221-5+b2 ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.39-1 ii libc6 2.19-13 pn libcompress-zlib-perl <none> ii libtime-modules-perl 2013.1113-2 ii libwww-perl 6.08-1 ii perl [libdigest-md5-perl] 5.20.1-3 ii samba-common-bin 2:4.1.13+dfsg-2 ii smbclient 2:4.1.13+dfsg-2 ii tar 1.27.1-2+b1 ii ucf 3.0030 Versions of packages backuppc recommends: ii libfile-rsyncp-perl 0.70-1.1+b1 ii libio-dirent-perl 0.05-1+b2 ii openssh-client [ssh-client] 1:6.7p1-3 ii rrdtool 1.4.8-1.2 ii rsync 3.1.1-2+b1 Versions of packages backuppc suggests: pn par2 <none> ii w3m [www-browser] 0.5.3-19 -- Configuration Files: /etc/backuppc/config.pl bfde4d3d06afcb9a335f47e3dcacd90d [Errno 2] No such file or directory: u'/etc/backuppc/config.pl bfde4d3d06afcb9a335f47e3dcacd90d' /etc/backuppc/hosts changed [not included] -- debconf information: * backuppc/configuration-note: backuppc/restart-webserver: true * backuppc/reconfigure-webserver: apache2