On Sun, August 31, 2014 14:43, Olivier Berger wrote:
> Hi.
>
> On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 07:55:10PM +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
>>
>> Hi Olivier,
>>
>> Please drop the dependency on php-db of php-cas, because as far as I can
>> see it is not needed at all. I've marked this as important because
>> php-cas
>> has been removed from jessie because of this dependency, it may happen
>> again because php-db is not really maintained.
>>
>
> I've noticed the removal from jessie for a while, but thanks for the heads
> up.
>
> AFAIR, php-cas may need a DB for so called PGT storage, but I'm not really
> clear on whether anyone really used this with the Debian package actually
> :-/

The source does not seem to include "DB.php" anywhere, so I think that
kind of settles whether it is used. The upstream docs also mention it
nowhere as a requirement.

> I'm not sure it's used in most cases, so I'm a bit puzzled on how to solve
> this, besides my lack of interest for CAS these days (see my RFA :
> #757231).
>
> Any suggestion welcome.

At the very least you could downgrade the Depends to a Recommends. But I
think you can just drop it.


Cheers,
Thijs


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