[Pkg-mediawiki-devel] Bug#480705: mediawiki: The installation requires mysql-server ?!

[Frederic Massot]

Package: mediawiki
Version: 1:1.12.0-2
Severity: normal


Hi,

I want to install Mediawiki on a web server, the database is on another server.

On the Web server are installed apache2, debconf, mime-support, php5, php5-mysql
and php5-pgsql.

And the output of apt-get :

$ sudo apt-get install mediawiki
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libhtml-template-perl mysql-client-5.0 mysql-server mysql-server-5.0
Suggested packages:
  libipc-sharedcache-perl clamav mediawiki-math memcached tinyca
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libhtml-template-perl mediawiki mysql-client-5.0 mysql-server mysql-server-5.0
0 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 to remove and 23 not upgraded.
Need to get 42.4MB of archives.
After this operation, 132MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n
Abort.


Surprisingly, mysql-server is not part of dependencies.

Regards.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.20
Locale: LANG=fr_FR at euro, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR at euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash