[request-tracker-maintainers] Bug#693123: unblock: rt-authen-externalauth/0.10-3

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 07:10:11PM +0000, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> [rt maintainers added to CC]
> 
> On Wed, 2012-12-05 at 07:17 +0100, Tom Jampen wrote:
> > On 20.11.2012 19:56, Tom Jampen wrote:
> > >> On Thu, 2012-11-15 at 10:05 +0100, Tom Jampen wrote:
> > >>> An rt-authen-externalauth maintainer pointed out that apache2 needs to
> > >>> be restarted after clearing the cache. Do you want me to create a
> > >>> debconf question or just indicate this necessity in the README.Debian for
> > >>> a successful wheezy unblock?
> > >>
> > >> We'd prefer to avoid introducing new potentially translation-requiring 
> > >> debconf material at this stage.
> > > 
> > > OK, I see.
> > > So I propose to add a note to README.Debian or to postinst (similar to rt4)
> > > whatever you prefer.
> 
> RT maintainers: is there any form of policy on how extension packages
> should handle restarting web servers after clearing Mason caches? If
> not, do you have any thoughts / preferences?

For now it will need to just replicate the notification RT itself
gives; it can be run in two many different ways for there to be a
reliable automated way (at least not without a lot of work which hasn't
been done yet).

http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-request-tracker/request-tracker4.git;a=blob;f=debian/postinst;h=dd5c4995c90b43684f43bc445872e05a1ca80c7b;hb=HEAD#l11

Sorry I don't have a better answer.

I suppose ideally there'd be a helper script that extension packages
could call.

Technically of course, an extension should only be deleting mason
cache files directly related to its output, but I doubt that is worth
the fuss.

Cheers,
Dominic.

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