[Pkg-cacti-maint] Bug#783402: cacti package is completely broken, nothing works out of the box

[teo8976 at gmail.com]

Package: cacti
Version: 0.8.8a+dfsg-5+deb7u4
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,
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   * What led up to the situation?
installed cacti package

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?

apt-get install cacti
followed installation instructions

   * What was the outcome of this action?
cacti doesn't work.
It does not generate files in the rra/ directory
It does not show any graphs

Also, the installed HTML documentation has broken links to wrong paths of CSS files

   * What outcome did you expect instead?

Should work out of the box.
And the HTML documentation should be built and linked correctly

See these reports which have been closed by the upstream developer who says they're the debian package's fault:
http://bugs.cacti.net/view.php?id=2558
http://bugs.cacti.net/view.php?id=2554

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-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.6
  APT prefers oldstable
  APT policy: (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages cacti depends on:
ii  dbconfig-common                          1.8.47+nmu1
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]                    1.5.49
ii  libapache2-mod-php5                      5.4.39-0+deb7u2
ii  libphp-adodb                             5.15-1
ii  mysql-client-5.5 [virtual-mysql-client]  5.5.40-0+wheezy1
ii  perl                                     5.14.2-21+deb7u2
ii  php5-cli                                 5.4.39-0+deb7u2
ii  php5-mysql                               5.4.39-0+deb7u2
ii  php5-snmp                                5.4.39-0+deb7u2
ii  rrdtool                                  1.4.7-2
ii  snmp                                     5.4.3~dfsg-2.8+deb7u1
ii  ucf                                      3.0025+nmu3

Versions of packages cacti recommends:
ii  apache2                      2.2.22-13+deb7u3
ii  apache2-mpm-prefork [httpd]  2.2.22-13+deb7u3
ii  iputils-ping                 3:20101006-1+b1
ii  libjs-jquery                 1.7.2+dfsg-1
ii  libjs-jquery-cookie          6-1
ii  logrotate                    3.8.1-4
ii  mysql-server                 5.5.40-0+wheezy1

Versions of packages cacti suggests:
pn  moreutils  <none>
pn  php5-ldap  <none>

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