[request-tracker-maintainers] RT_SiteModules.pm

[Niko Tyni]

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.

Perhaps remove it in the next series (3.10 or 4.0 or whatever it's going
to be)?
-- 
Niko