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. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ [email protected] [email protected] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
