Tora package fails to recommend the necessary DB connection providers

[Gregory Weber]

Synaptic describes the tora package as providing access to MySQL and PostgreSQL and everything else through ODBC. However, when I installed tora, the only "connection provider" available was MySQL.

Fixed by installing libqt4-sql-psql and libqt4-sql-odbc. Shouldn't these packages be dependencies for tora, or at least recommended extra packages?

1) The release of Ubuntu you are using, via 'lsb_release -rd' or System -> About Ubuntu

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

2) The version of the package you are using, via 'apt-cache policy pkgname' or by checking in Software Center

2.1.3-1build2

3) What you expected to happen

a. tora's connection provider menu would include MySQL, PostgreSQL, and ODBC
b. when installing tora via apt-get, it would automatically install all of the libqt4-sql-* packages needed for (a) to happen,
or at least mention them as recommended extras

4) What happened instead
a. tora's connection provider menu showed MySQL as the only option
b. apt-get did not install all of the required libqt4-sql-* packages, nor did it suggest them.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: tora 2.1.3-1build2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-48.74-generic 3.2.46
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-48-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.3
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Jun 21 12:04:17 2013
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/usr/bin/fish
SourcePackage: tora
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-11-21 (211 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

tora should recommend

libqt4-sql-mysql
libqt4-sql-odbc
libqt4-sql-psql

and probably libqt4-sql-sqlite as well

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

It's probably a good idea to fix this alongside bug 1178799 and backport this to trusty.

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

Unfortunately, this is user-unfriendly by choice of the inactive Debian maintainer. See https://bugs.debian.org/560687 for the no-gain, much loss position on the matter.