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

[Gerardo Curiel]

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Niko Tyni wrote:
> [ Dropping Trent, Andrew, and the ITP bug from the Cc's for now. Gerardo,
>   are you subscribed to the pkg-request-tracker-maintainers list? ]

Now I am :)

>>
>> * 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.

That sounds great.

>> * 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.

The 'don't drop databases' is reasonable. The acl part is the one that I
just don't understand. I'll try to figure it out later this week.


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