Debian Bug report logs - #794029
php5-cli doesn't satisfy php dependency for php5 metapackage

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Nick Adams <nick.adams98@gmail.com>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: php5-cli doesn't satisfy php dependency for php5 metapackage

Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2015 09:01:19 +1000

Package: php5
Version: 5.6.9+dfsg-0+deb8u1

The metapackage `php5` has a number of options to supply php but
php5-cli is not one of those. On a host that doesn't require a web
server, this metapackage seems to require that one be installed.

Adding php5-cli to the php5 package dependency options would fix this.

Message #10 received at 794029-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Ondřej Surý <ondrej@sury.org>

To: Nick Adams <nick.adams98@gmail.com>, 794029-done@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: [php-maint] Bug#794029: php5-cli doesn't satisfy php dependency for php5 metapackage

Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2015 09:42:37 +0200

That's intentional as PHP is a language for web servers. Just don't
install the meta package if you don't want a PHP for a web server.

Cheers,
Ondrej

On Thu, Jul 30, 2015, at 01:01, Nick Adams wrote:
> Package: php5
> Version: 5.6.9+dfsg-0+deb8u1
> 
> The metapackage `php5` has a number of options to supply php but
> php5-cli is not one of those. On a host that doesn't require a web
> server, this metapackage seems to require that one be installed.
> 
> Adding php5-cli to the php5 package dependency options would fix this.
> 
> _______________________________________________
> pkg-php-maint mailing list
> pkg-php-maint@lists.alioth.debian.org
> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-php-maint


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Message #15 received at 794029@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "Thijs Kinkhorst" <thijs@debian.org>

To: "Nick Adams" <nick.adams98@gmail.com>, 794029@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: [php-maint] Bug#794029: php5-cli doesn't satisfy php dependency for php5 metapackage

Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2015 10:24:31 +0200

On Thu, July 30, 2015 01:01, Nick Adams wrote:
> The metapackage `php5` has a number of options to supply php but
> php5-cli is not one of those. On a host that doesn't require a web
> server, this metapackage seems to require that one be installed.
>
> Adding php5-cli to the php5 package dependency options would fix this.

What is the use case of this? The packages currently depending on the php5
meta package do so because they are applications that need to be run in a
webserver context. Otherwise they'd depend on php5-cli directly.


Cheers,
Thijs

Message #20 received at 794029@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Nick Adams <nick.adams98@gmail.com>

To: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>

Cc: 794029@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: [php-maint] Bug#794029: php5-cli doesn't satisfy php dependency for php5 metapackage

Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2015 20:05:16 +1000

Hi Thijs and Ondrej,

Thanks for your replies.

We are using php5-cli without a webserver for long running daemons and
scripts. I certainly understand that this would be a far from normal
use case but it still certainly is a valid use case.

On further inspection, it appears that one of the PHP packages we use,
php-auth-sasl, has the dependency of php5 which is in-turn, pulling in
libapache2-mod-php5. I'm guessing that this dependency should probably
be changed so that it refers to php5-common instead.
php-mail-mimedecode looks to have the same issue.

Regards,

Nick.

On 30 July 2015 at 18:24, Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org> wrote:
> On Thu, July 30, 2015 01:01, Nick Adams wrote:
>> The metapackage `php5` has a number of options to supply php but
>> php5-cli is not one of those. On a host that doesn't require a web
>> server, this metapackage seems to require that one be installed.
>>
>> Adding php5-cli to the php5 package dependency options would fix this.
>
> What is the use case of this? The packages currently depending on the php5
> meta package do so because they are applications that need to be run in a
> webserver context. Otherwise they'd depend on php5-cli directly.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Thijs

Message #25 received at 794029@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Ondřej Surý <ondrej@sury.org>

To: Nick Adams <nick.adams98@gmail.com>, Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>

Cc: 794029@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: [php-maint] Bug#794029: Bug#794029: php5-cli doesn't satisfy php dependency for php5 metapackage

Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2015 13:14:42 +0200

Hi Nick,

On Thu, Jul 30, 2015, at 12:05, Nick Adams wrote:
> Hi Thijs and Ondrej,
> 
> Thanks for your replies.
> 
> We are using php5-cli without a webserver for long running daemons and
> scripts. I certainly understand that this would be a far from normal
> use case but it still certainly is a valid use case.

That's certainly fine.

> On further inspection, it appears that one of the PHP packages we use,
> php-auth-sasl, has the dependency of php5 which is in-turn, pulling in
> libapache2-mod-php5. I'm guessing that this dependency should probably
> be changed so that it refers to php5-common instead.
> php-mail-mimedecode looks to have the same issue.

Please fill a bug against php-auth-sasl since it should not depend on
php5; php-pear would be probably best choice to depend on.

Meanwhile - installing php5-cgi would be probably a best workaround, so
it doesn't pull apache2 in.

Cheers,
-- 
Ondřej Surý <ondrej@sury.org>
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