[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#525205: samba: please downgrade logrotate dependency to recommends

Russ Allbery rra at debian.org
Wed Apr 22 21:40:50 UTC 2009


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.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash





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