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mongodb package

mongodb package recommends mongodb-dev

Bug #1607821 reported by Jay R. Wren
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Bug Description

UPDATED: the first version of this description incorrectly mentioned Recommends.

For a vast majority of use cases, apt-get install mongodb is used to install mongodb. This causes mongodb-dev to be installed, including a rather large dependency tree with compilers and boost-dev.

I humbly request that mongodb-dev be moved from Depends to Suggests for the mongodb package and that Depends becomes mongodb-server, mongodb-client.

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Jay R. Wren (evarlast)
description: updated
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Robie Basak (racb) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.

I can see that this is present in Trusty but is fixed in Xenial and Yakkety.

Changed in mongodb (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
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Robie Basak (racb) wrote :

If you need a fix for the bug in previous versions of Ubuntu, then the relevant procedure is documented here:

 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates

However, I'm not sure this bug would qualify under that policy, although I am not on the SRU team and cannot make that decision.

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