[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#525205: samba: please downgrade logrotate dependency to recommends

[Steve Langasek]

unarchive 504219
reopen 504219
forcemerge 504219 525205
thanks

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 02:40:50PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Package: samba
> Version: 2:3.3.3-1
> Severity: normal

> We use a different log rotation mechanism than logrotate to rotate all
> system logs since it has additional features specific to our environment.
> We therefore purge logrotate from all of our systems so that we don't
> have to clean up all of its configuration files and convince it not to
> do anything, since otherwise it fights with our log rotation configuration.

> samba is one of a few packages we've run into that has a hard dependency
> on logrotate.  This seems to me like the right place to use recommends
> instead, since samba should not require a specific log rotation program
> to work properly, only require that its logs be rotated.

Yep, agreed.  Reopening bug #504219 was on my todo list; having been closed
citing me as precedent, but I've since had a change of heart (probably
because recommends-by-default are now available).  I'll go ahead and get
this change committed.

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