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

[Tom Jampen]

On 05.12.2012 23:49, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> 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.


Thanks, Dominic!

So I assume, Adam, that you are ok with unblocking the next
rt-authen-externalauth version if I use the same solution as request-tracker4
does for clearing the mason cache and indicating that apache needs to be
restarted?

Tom