Comment 6 for bug 234609

Rui got it right. The problem is that we need to fix the dependencies as he describes. You can install moodle without php5-mysql installed, so you get a blank screen when you go to moodle. A Normal Person (our audience) has no idea what the problem is. I went to install phpmyadmin to investigate the problem and when I did I noticed that php5-mysql got installed and lo! the problem was resolved.

This is a quick fix with no side-effects that I can imagine. It'd be nice to get this in before 8.10 gets released.