On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 10:26:03PM +0100, Gergely Madarasz wrote: > On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Steve Haslam wrote: > > Hmm.. actually, there's quite a variation on how packages relate to > > logrotate: all of Depends, Recommends and Suggests are used. > > > > I see... so I think there should be some policy about logrotate... I agree. My position, FWIW, is that packages should depend on logrotate unless they provide a method of rotating the logs when logrotate is not present, in which case they should either recommend or suggest it. The point being, that if a package maintainer is providing a logrotate config file, then s/he intended the logs to be rotated, and the logs not being rotated is a situation where the package is malfunctioning. What does everyone else think? SRH [ please keep me cc:'ed until I manage to subscribe my home acct to debian-policy ] -- Steve Haslam, Production Engineer, Excite UK steve.haslam@excitehome.net i sit and stare at the gun pointed at my head and think about all the possibilities
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