Re: Bug#54810: ought to depend on logrotate
(debian-policy CC-ed)
On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Steve Haslam wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 10:10:41PM +0100, Gergely Madarasz wrote:
> > > mailman installs a file in /etc/logrotate.d but doesn't depend on
> > > logrotate- which means the logs are silently not rotated.
> >
> > it actually recommends logrotate just like many other packages having
> > logrotate config files... so this was intentional... or is there any
> > policy about logrotate ?
>
> Actually, I don't know about a policy regarding logrotate. But apt-get
> doesn't do anything about "recommends:" fields, so I didn't get it- in
> fact, I didn't realise it was a separate package until I realised the
> logs weren't being rotated for months and investigated...
Actually I just introduced logrotate support in my last upload, so logs
weren't rotated before at all even with logrotate installed... :)
>
> Hmm.. actually, there's quite a variation on how packages relate to
> logrotate: all of Depends, Recommends and Suggests are used.
>
> apt-cache showpkg logrotate | perl -lne 'print $1 if (/^ +(.+),logrotate$/)'\
> | xargs -n 1 apt-cache show | egrep '(^Package:|logrotate)'
>
> helps show that:
>
> Suggested by: cron, mysql-server, wwwoffle, wu-ftpd, taper
>
> Recommended by: xtide, sympa, smtpfeed, mailman, cricket
>
> Depended on by: heimdal-kdc, jserv, syslog-ng, linuxconf, leafnode,
> fwctl, bsmtpd
I see... so I think there should be some policy about logrotate...
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