Comment 2 for bug 1076489

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

You are correct that this is a strange requirement, but I suspect that if this is happening to you then this is more likely due to a dependency requirement caused by some other package, rather than an issue with removing php5-cgi itself.

I've just tried purging php5-cgi on a test system, and it did not require me to install apache2.

I suspect that this is not a bug in Ubuntu, but instead being caused on your system by some other package whose dependencies can be fulfilled by installing apache2. In this case, you may find the Debug::pkgProblemResolver and/or Debug::pkgDepCache::AutoInstall debug options to apt helpful, and you may be able to get help quicker by following the community support options at http://www.ubuntu.com/support/community

Marking Incomplete as I cannot reproduce this issue. If you can provide exact steps to reproduce the problem and the exact output that you are getting (including the output of the debug options above), then please comment this and set the status back to New.