recommends mysql-server

[Patrik Modesto]

Binary package hint: mtop

I wanted to use mtop on my dev-PC to watch DB on a server and I wonder why mtop depends on mysql-server package?

$ sudo apt-get install mtop
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libcurses-perl libdbd-mysql-perl libdbi-perl libhtml-template-perl
  libnet-daemon-perl libplrpc-perl mysql-client mysql-client-5.0 mysql-server
  mysql-server-5.0 mysql-server-core-5.0

Description: Ubuntu 9.04
Release: 9.04

$ apt-cache policy mtop
mtop:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 0.6.6-1.2

Thanks,
Patrik

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

13:07:21 - flash: apt-cache show mtop
Package: mtop
Priority: optional
Section: universe/utils
Installed-Size: 224
Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU Developers <email address hidden>
Original-Maintainer: Andrés Roldán <email address hidden>
Architecture: all
Version: 0.6.6-1.2
Depends: perl, debconf (>= 1.2.9) | debconf-2.0, libcurses-perl, libdbd-mysql-perl, libnet-perl, mysql-client
Recommends: mysql-server

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

This bug is an upstream one and it would be quite helpful if somebody experiencing it could send the bug the to the people writing the software. You can learn more about how to do this for various upstreams at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream. Thanks in advance!