[request-tracker-maintainers] RT_SiteModules.pm

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Sun, Aug 08, 2010 at 09:59:26PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 01, 2010 at 01:05:01PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 01, 2010 at 12:40:10PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> > > 
> > > Does anyone understand what debian/patches/04_sitemodules.dpatch
> > > and debian/conf/RT_SiteModules.pm is all about? This file seems to exist 
> > > only in the Debian packages, doesn't contain any code as distributed,
> > > and isn't documented at all. It would appear to be completely redundant.
> 
> > request-tracker3 (3.0.2-4) unstable; urgency=low
> 
> >   * We have created a new conffile, RT_SiteModules.pm, which is 'require'd
> >     from the webmux.pl script in the HTML::Mason::Commands package
> >     section. If you add any new functionality to RT that relies on
> >     additional modules being loaded at start time then we suggest you put
> >     the 'use MyMod::Foo;' stuff in there. webmux.pl will be replaced each
> >     time the package is upgraded, RT_SiteModules.pm is guaranteed to
> >     continue to exist.
> > 
> >  -- Stephen Quinney <stephen at jadevine.org.uk>  Thu,  5 Jun 2003 14:26:23 +0100
> > 
> > Should this still be a supported customisation route? I guess while we
> > support stuff in /usr/local it will be needed.
> 
> I've never used it myself FWIW, but it doesn't seem to be a huge
> maintenance burden.

Yes, indeed. If we keep it, we should document it though.
 
> Perhaps remove it in the next series (3.10 or 4.0 or whatever it's going
> to be)?

Could do, although as you say it's not a great burden; it might be
simpler to keep it.

3.9-trunk has appeared in git, so I suspect that 3.10 will be the
next version. Not sure what the roadmap for 4.0 is these days...

Cheers,
Dominic.

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