severity 417554 important
thanks

On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 11:13:46AM +0200, Michael Ablassmeier wrote:
> Package: moodle
> Version: 1.6.3-2
> Severity: serious
> Justification: Policy violation (section 7.2)

> while doing archive wide piuparts tests some packages using
> wwwconfig-common failed to install because of postgresql not beeing
> available (this is moodle, for example):

> reading policy section 7.2 i get the impression this is not policy
> compliant:

>  "The Depends field should also be used if the postinst, prerm or postrm
>   scripts require the package to be present in order to run."

> which is imho the case here .. both wwwconfig-common and moodle to
> Recommend/Suggest postgresql, but they should nevertheless be
> installable if the Recommends/Suggests are not satisfied:

Uh, no.  The package *is* installable, if you either:

- run moodle's install interactively, and specify the location of your SQL
  server, or
- honor the package's recommends.

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