[request-tracker-maintainers] Bug#511260: request-tracker3.8: importing 3.6 configuration and database

[Niko Tyni]

Package: request-tracker3.8
Version: 3.8.1-1~experimental2
Severity: wishlist

It would be nice to have a way to import 3.6 configuration
on fresh 3.8 installs if feasible.

I think a debconf question about copying over a 3.6 RT_SiteConfig.pm
(or non-default RT_SiteConfig.d entries?) could work. If RT_SiteConfig.pm
is present when installing, the debconf values will be seeded from there.

This leads naturally to reusing the old database too, which means
we'd need to do the required schema upgrade (with permission
from the admin, of course.) This is probably the harder part.
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org