[request-tracker-maintainers] Bug#503667: request-tracker3.6 - Use debconf as registry

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 12:52:57PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote:
> Package: request-tracker3.6
> Version: 3.6.7-3
> Severity: serious
> 
> request-tracker3.6 uses debconf as a registry to detect which db
> informations are available. The debconf data is volatile and therefor
> not possible to be used in this way.

Agreed.

I propose to change debian/config to just check whether the rt3.6-db-*
packages are installed to determine whether to support these packages
(and then remove the db4.6-db-* config/postinst scripts altogether).

Does this sounds reasonable?

Dominic.

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