[Pkg-cacti-maint] Bug#722889: cacti creates excessive logging about missing file - dependency needs fixing

[Paul Gevers]

On 15-09-13 11:35, Jeff Armstrong wrote:
> Just to be clear - your note indicates that the problem has been solved
> in upstream,

Not upstream, but in Debian, in a version of the packaging, so it is now
available in testing.

> but has the issue been resolved in the wheezy version?

No.

> Given that the next stable debian is probably a couple of years away,
> filling up root on single volume [v]hosts regularly is not sysops
> friendly for a stable distro.

But unfortunately, I am unsure if this warrants a stable-release-update.
Especially since a "solution" is to just install an additional package.
Quoting from the developers-reference [1]:
"""
Basically, a package should only be uploaded to stable if one of the
following happens:

    a truly critical functionality problem

    the package becomes uninstallable

    a released architecture lacks the package
"""
You *might* argue that the first is the case, but you must be having a
lot of people viewing the cacti pages for it to fill up your volumes
and/or small volumes.

I could prepare a stable-release-update proposal, and we could see if
the release team allows this change to be incorporated in the next
stable point release. What do you think?

[1]
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.html#upload-stable



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