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nanourl package

nanourl "unnaturally" depends on Apache

Bug #268773 reported by Paul Bryan
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
nanourl (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: nanourl

nanourl's dependencies are:

  Package: nanourl
  ...
  Depends: apache | apache2 | apache-ssl, php5 | php4, php5-mysql | php4-mysql, mysql-client

This appears because nano.postinst wants to add Apache rewrite rules to the Apache configuration to support it.

Given nanourl is at its essence a couple of PHP scripts (which in its source distribution has nothing to do with Apache), explicitly depending on Apache seems wrong given the number of alternative/lightweight HTTP servers that are currently available.

If not for the assumption of Apache as a dependency, this package could be utilized by a number of web servers, and simply be satisfied by a PHP and php-mysql dependency.

I acknowledge that because it's just a couple of PHP files, I can just download them and install manually myself; that's indeed what I'll do. The purpose of opening this bug is to quarrel with the built-in assumption that Apache is the only web server that it should run on.

Related branches

lp:ubuntu/karmic/nanourl
Alessio Treglia (quadrispro)
Changed in nanourl:
assignee: nobody → quadrispro
status: New → In Progress
assignee: quadrispro → nobody
status: In Progress → Confirmed
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Luca Falavigna (dktrkranz) wrote :

Upgrading from 0.1-7.1, dpkg complains with the following message:
Preparing to replace nanourl 0.1-7.1 (using nanourl_0.1-7.1ubuntu1_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement nanourl ...
postrm called with unknown argument 'upgrade'
dpkg: warning - old post-removal script returned error exit status 1
dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
postrm called with unknown argument 'failed-upgrade'
dpkg: error processing nanourl_0.1-7.1ubuntu1_amd64.deb (--install):
 subprocess new post-removal script returned error exit status 1
postrm called with unknown argument 'abort-upgrade'
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
 subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 nanourl_0.1-7.1ubuntu1_amd64.deb

Also, it seems to me package could be Architecture: all

Changed in nanourl:
importance: Undecided → Low
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
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Alessio Treglia (quadrispro) wrote :
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Paul Bryan (pbryan) wrote :

Wow, thanks for working on this so quickly.

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Luca Falavigna (dktrkranz) wrote :

I still notice issues raised above, problems are those:
* postrm lacks upgrade argument, probably implementing a no-op upgrade argument (together with the failed-upgrade one) should fix this, at least during upgrade from 0.1-7.1.
* postinst tries to create a symlink with ln -s, this will fail if symlink is already present, a possible solution could be overwrite it with -f option.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package nanourl - 0.1-7.1ubuntu1

---------------
nanourl (0.1-7.1ubuntu1) intrepid; urgency=low

  [ Alessio Treglia ]
  * Removed unnecessary depend on apache (LP: #268773).
  * Set Architecture field to all.

  [ Luca Falavigna ]
  * Implemented no-op upgrade and failed-upgrade targets to fix weird
    errors while upgrading from 0.1-7.1.
  * Use ln -fs when creating symlinks to avoid errors during configure
    phase if they are already present.

 -- Luca Falavigna <email address hidden> Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:25:52 +0000

Changed in nanourl:
status: Incomplete → Fix Released
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