[request-tracker-maintainers] Bug#442398: RT has non-functional link in user front page

[Niko Tyni]

On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 02:31:17PM -0700, Ivan Kohler wrote:
 
> I'm not sure a fix for this would be accepted in etch proper (though it 
> can't hurt to try), and it is off-topic for volatile.
> 
> However, we should upload a package to unstable that fixes the problem 
> for existing databaes on upgrade, and possibly do an etch backport for 
> backports.org.

Some observations:

- the initialdata file was fixed upstream in 3.6.2, so the root problem
  is fixed in unstable

  http://rt3.fsck.com/Ticket/Display.html?id=7854

- the bug shows up when $RT::WebPath is changed after the database
  has been initialized. At initialization time, the variable is
  interpolated correctly.

- the suggested 'rt-setup-database --action insert' is not an optimal
  fix for existing databases: it will duplicate the database content

- the database contents are serialized by Storable, so the upgrade script
  must be done by using the RT API and not by modifying the database
  directly. This would probably have been a good idea in any case.

I'll look into the upgrade script.

Cheers,
-- 
Niko Tyni   ntyni at iki.fi