<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><a href="http://packages.debian.org/sid/php5">http://packages.debian.org/sid/php5</a></div><div><br></div><div>There's no apache2 dependency here.</div><div><br></div><div>Could you paste your output of apt-cache show php5?<br><br>Ondřej Surý</div><div><br>On 6. 7. 2013, at 7:12, Balachandran S <<a href="mailto:benignbala@gmail.com">benignbala@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>Hi,</span><br><span></span><br><span> I just tried to install php5 on Debian(Jessie), and it says it will install apache2, libapache2-mod-php5 and so on. I checked the control file and php5 indeed has apache2 as a dependency. Why is this so ? In my opinion, we shouldn't make the choice of the web server for our users. We should leave it up to them.</span><br><span></span><br><span> Instead, can we do a dummy package like php5-apache which installs apache, libapache2-mod-php5 etc ? Thanks</span><br><span></span><br><span>--</span><br><span>Thank you,</span><br><span>Balachandran S</span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>pkg-php-maint mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:pkg-php-maint@lists.alioth.debian.org">pkg-php-maint@lists.alioth.debian.org</a></span><br><span><a href="http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-php-maint">http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-php-maint</a></span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>