[request-tracker-maintainers] request-tracker3.8 packages?

[Niko Tyni]

[ Dropping Trent, Andrew, and the ITP bug from the Cc's for now. Gerardo,
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On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 11:54:42AM -0430, Gerardo Curiel wrote:

> Well, there are some outstanding issues with the rt3.8 package:
> 
> * Rt3.8 depends HTML::RewriteAttributes >= 0.02 (not-in-debian), but
> apparently it works without it right now.

This sounds like a job for the pkg-perl project. Asking nicely on the
debian-perl list might be enough :) 

I can try to find the time to get it in; it looks like just another tiny
CPAN package.

> * There's no manpage for:
>   - usr/sbin/rt-clean-sessions
>   - usr/sbin/rt-email-dashboards
>   - usr/sbin/rt-email-digest
>   - usr/sbin/rt-email-group-admin
>   - usr/sbin/rt-shredder

I don't think that's a blocker for experimental...

> * Right now the only functional backend is the Pgsql one(which I'm
> currently using). I'm  not applying the 02_acls patch, which is not
> documented, because I'm not sure how to proceed with this one,
> rt3.8-db-postgresql works without it. Help would be appreciated :)

That's really old baggage. It was already in request-tracker3/3.0.12-8
at least. These changelog entries seem relevant:

request-tracker3 (3.0.7+01-3) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fix up acl.mysql to stop it trying to configure ACLs for the database. We
    make our users do this the hard way :>

 -- Andrew Stribblehill <ads at debian.org>  Wed, 26 Nov 2003 12:15:28 +0000

request-tracker3 (3.0.0-6) unstable; urgency=low

 * Don't drop databases or tables in acl.Pg or acl.mysql.

 -- Andrew Stribblehill <ads at debian.org>  Fri, 11 Apr 2003 17:01:24 +0100

The "don't drop databases" change looks like a safety net for users
accidentally zapping their database. Not sure about the acl part; see
also #247618.

-- 
Niko