Re: Bug#49178: /var/log/wwwcount/wwwcount.log should not be in package list
[I'm ccing -mentors because I have a question about part of this. I'm
also ccing Ashley clark as he has expressed an interest in maintaining
this package.
On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
>
> Package: wwwcount
> Version: 2.5-1
>
> The debian/rules file has:
>
> touch debian/tmp/var/log/wwwcount/wwwcount.log
> chown root.www-data debian/tmp/var/log/wwwcount/wwwcount.log
> chmod 0644 debian/tmp/var/log/wwwcount/wwwcount.log
>
> This creates the file in the package itself, which is bad because
> the log file will be removed when the package is removed (I know
> they are rotated every week).
>
> Please move the creation of the log file (if it doesn't already
> exists!) to a postinst script.
>
Ok, I'll change this.
> BTW, wwwcount is the first package I've encountered for which
>
> # debien/rules binary
>
> does not successfully build the package. It needs both:
>
> # debien/rules build
> # debien/rules binary
>
> I'd edit the rules file to change this too.
>
Now this is my question for -mentors. There are calls to make which
I'll gladly move to binary-arch but Isn't build the proper place for
putting calls to configure etc?
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Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar@debian.org>
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