Comment 4 for bug 769765

23:00 < infinity> If the mod_perl/dbi-perl method is the preferred one (which it is currently,
                  being at the head of the list), I'd move libapache-dbi-perl to the front of the
                  list and drop mod_perl from there. That probably fixes the general case.
                  Probably still doesn't make it perfect.
23:01 < infinity> Actually, if every one of those ORed lists started with libapache-dbi-perl (and
                  no mod_perl) I think that would express what the packager wanted, yeah.
23:02 < infinity> You'll then end up with either mod_perl/dbi-perl, or one of the other CGI options.
23:02 < infinity> But never mod_perl without dbi-perl, which is what's causing the bug.
23:04 < infinity> I'd recommend the above to the Debian maintainer. And do the same in Ubuntu.
23:04 < infinity> Do, drop the Recommends: line entirely, and on all the "foo | bar" deps, remove
                  mod_perl, and move dbi-perl to the first position.
23:04 < infinity> s/Do/So/
23:05 < infinity> dbi-perl depends on mod_perl, so that gives exactly what you want, IMO.