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
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