Roundcube should not depend on apache

[Mark Constable]

Using Ubuntu 14.04 and 14.10 where nginx and php5-fpm is already installed roundcube should not depend on apache.

I understand nginx may not be fully supported yet so this is a heads up that this situation will render the roundcube package uninstallable so therefor is a packaging bug.

Expected situation is for roundcube to depend on a virtual httpd package with the option of the current apache auto config or allow an admin to NOT install apache'isms and configure their alternate webserver themselves (if need be).

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[vvhk (vvhk-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

This is still a problem (2015-02-24). What is weird is that Apache2 gets installed alongside nginx and of course that breaks as the socket is used and it cannot start.

Uninstalling apache2 apache2-bin and related after roundcube is installed does NOT uninstall roundcube which is great, but shows there's indeed a bug.

IIRC on Debian one had to install php5-cgi to satisfy roundcube and prevent installation of apache.

[Jim Bailey (jim-freesolutions)]

Also affects 15.04

[vvhk (vvhk-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

Also affects 15.10 beta (as of 2015-10-01).

[vvhk (vvhk-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

Apparently fixed in 16.04, but also note in 16.04 PHP is at 7.

$ apt-get install -s roundcube-pgsql nginx php php7.0-fpm
...
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  nginx nginx-common nginx-core php php-common php-pgsql php7.0 php7.0-cli php7.0-common php7.0-fpm php7.0-json php7.0-opcache php7.0-pgsql php7.0-readline roundcube-pgsql
0 upgraded, 15 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

[Philippe Clérié (pclerie)]

Same problem still here on bionic.

Roundcube-core depends on libapache2-mod-php which of course will pull in apache2 no matter what else.

That dependency is listed as libapache2-mod-php or php which seems to be superfluous since PHP is unavoidable anyway.

And while I'm at it there's also a hard dependency on a database driver which is not necessary if I'm not going to use a DB.

Those dependencies really need some work.

[Gwyneth Llewelyn (gwyneth-llewelyn)]

I'm still on xenial and using nginx, but now moving away from PHP 7.0 and just having 7.3 (default) and 7.2 installed. Unfortunately, Roundcube *forces* the usage of php7.0-* (and, conversely, when removing php7.0-*, Roundcube gets removed as well).