[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#422968: is logrotate really necessary to run the package?

[Steve Langasek]

On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 03:34:10PM +0700, Ivan Shmakov wrote:
>  SL> Users can use whatever they want to rotate the logs, with or
>  SL> without the dependency, by editing the logrotate config files and
>  SL> configuring their own log rotation program.  But logrotate is
>  SL> Priority: important,

> 	Doesn't it mean that D-I will probably install it anyway?
> 	(Hadn't used D-I for a few years; may be wrong.)

Yes, it does.  But I don't think this is an argument against the dependency,
I think it's an argument for it.

>  SL> is lightweight (/usr/sbin/logrotate weighs in at 40k on i386, which
>  SL> is less than, say, /bin/sed), and is the standard log rotation
>  SL> mechanism in Debian (including documentation in Debian policy).

> 	Debian policy, AIUI, requires a package to supply an adequate
> 	logrotate.d/ file.  It doesn't state anything with respect to
> 	this matter about the contents of a `control' file.

True.

>  SL> and get a consensus for such a change, rather than asking
>  SL> individual packages to change to accommodate your singular
>  SL> preference.

> 	I guess, installing some dummy-logrotate package with
> 	``Provides: logrotate'' in `control' will suffice for a
> 	temporary solution?

Yes, or as a permanent (but local) solution.

Cheers,
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