Installation fails if no DBMS is available

[Lorenzo J. Lucchini]

The phpgroupware package only lists "postgresql | mysql-server" as a Suggests, not as a strict dependency. However, when installing without any DBMS available, dpkg reports the following error:

[...]
Setting up wwwconfig-common (0.0.46) ...
Setting up phpgroupware-phpgwapi (0.9.16.011-2) ...
Setting up phpgroupware-setup (0.9.16.011-2) ...
Setting up phpgroupware-admin (0.9.16.011-2) ...
Setting up phpgroupware-preferences (0.9.16.011-2) ...
Setting up phpgroupware (0.9.16.011-2) ...
setting up apache
setting up apache-ssl
setting up apache-perl
setting up apache2
/usr/share/wwwconfig-common/pgsql.get: line 77: psql: command not found
/usr/share/wwwconfig-common/pgsql.get: line 77: psql: command not found
dpkg: error processing phpgroupware (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 phpgroupware
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[Kai Kasurinen (kai-kasurinen)]

Thanks for the bug report.

I'm closing this bug because it has been fixed in Feisty.

phpgroupware (0.9.16.011-2.1) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * Non-maintainer upload.
   * Add missing depends on mysql-client | postgresql-client, since these
     are used in the package's postinst (Closes: #398635).
   * Update FSF address in debian/*copyright.

[Rouben (rouben)]

Requesting backports to Edgy and Dapper from Feisty to fix the issue. This should be a no brainer, since there's no actual "porting" involved.

DEB builds fine on dapper and edgy, therefore:
+1 for edgy and
+1 for dapper.

[Martin Meredith (mez)]

Approved for backporting to edgy and dapper (backports fine in prevu)

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 status inprogress

[Tollef Fog Heen (tfheen)]

Backports are not a substitute for SRUs, please do a proper SRUs for problems making the package uninstallable.

[Martin Meredith (mez)]

Confirmed- subscribed motu-sru

[StefanPotyra (sistpoty)]

Unsubscribing motu-sru and subscribing MOTU instead.

Please follow https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/SRU and (re)subscribe motu-sru, once there is a debdiff to review, thanks.

[Hew (hew)]

Ubuntu Edgy Eft is no longer supported, so a SRU will not be issued for this release. Marking Edgy as Won't Fix.

[JC Hulce (soaringsky)]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu. The version of Ubuntu referenced in this issue has reached end of life, and the issue is fixed in newer versions of Ubuntu. Therefore, I am closing the Dapper task.
Please see this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases