[request-tracker-maintainers] RT_SiteModules.pm

[Dominic Hargreaves]

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.
> 
> Unless anyone can come up with a reason to keep it, I would be inclined
> to remove this patch and file, with a NEWS notice to make clear that this
> is happening.

Okay, back in 2003:

request-tracker3 (3.0.2-4) unstable; urgency=low

  * INSTALL.Debian: More improvements, the instructions might even be
    correct now.
  * We now attempt to create, at postinst time, the RT /usr/local
    directories in a nice manner that conforms to section 10.1.2 of the
    Debian policy manual. At postrm the directories will be removed if
    they do not contain any files. Developers may be interested in
    dh_installusrlocal, a debhelper script developed by ads at debian.org to
    do all the hard work for us.
  * 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.

Dominic.

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