Installing Smarty tries to uninstall PHP5

[Daniel Callejas Sevilla]

2005/12/25, Tim Frost <timfrost at xtra.co.nz>:
> On Sun, 2005-12-25 at 14:33 +0100, Daniel Callejas Sevilla wrote:
> > 2005/12/25, Sasha Tsykin <stsykin at gmail.com>:
> > > Most likely the package was simply compiled to depend on php4 even
> > > though it can depend on php5. This si normal. If the maintainer only had
> > > php4 on his computer, then it would compile qutomatically like this.
> > >
> >
> > Thanks for your explanation. Should I anyhow notify the maintainer about this?
> >
>
> No.  The breezy package depends on php4 or php5:
> tim at marvin:~$ apt-cache show smarty
> Package: smarty
> Priority: optional
> Section: universe/web
> Installed-Size: 784
> Maintainer: Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine at cvf.fr>
> Architecture: all
> Version: 2.6.9-1
> Depends: debconf, php4 | php4-cli | php4-cgi | php5 | php5-cgi |
> php5-cli
>
> php5 is available (it is a meta-package, and apparently hasn't been
> installed), and depends on either libapache2-mod-php5 (which you have)
> or php5-cgi.
>

You're completely right. Sorry for the misinformation.

> Try installing php5 before installing smarty.
>

Now it works as expected.

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