On Sun, Nov 07, 2010 at 05:05:45PM +0100, Daniel Baumann wrote: > On 11/07/2010 04:21 PM, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > > Hi Daniel, > > Hi, > > > Thinking over this again, I'm curious as to why you think RT shouldn't > > depend on cron (or most likely the virtual package cron-daemon). > > you (the maintaienrs) didn't depend on it in the first place and added a > debconf question to ask whetever cron jobs should be installed or not.
Yes, I think that was an oversight and I'm glad that you've brought it to our attention :) > i can't tell if that is a useful thing to have. > > however, assuming that this was done on purpose and therefore the > cronjobs are sort of optional, request-tracker should not depend on cron > in order to not inflate depends. a recommends looks like the right thing > then. what i wanted to express was that i did not think of solving the > bug by adding a depends to cron, as it's too intrusive, but rather just > make the installation not fail. Yes, that makes sense, thanks. It's probably somewhat debatable whether the cron jobs should be optional at all; I think any working installation of RT should have them enabled. However when setting up test environments it's often desirable not to have the cron job enabled. > > Part > > of the functionality of RT won't work unless cron is installed. Wouldn't > > it be less confusing for users to pull in cron? Since it's a > > user-selectable feature, perhaps a Recommends would be strong enough. > > sounds like the most flexible and most usefull one. as you certainly > know, adding the recommends will not fix the bug, the mkdir is still > required (as, even if it's not the default behaviour, it's a valid > setting of disabling automatic installation of recommended packages in > apt/aptitude, and any package must not fail installing when doing so). Indeed so. I think adding a Recommends: cron-daemon is probably the best thing to do at this stage and I'll do that as part of fixing this bug. Thanks for your input. Dominic. -- Dominic Hargreaves | http://www.larted.org.uk/~dom/ PGP key 5178E2A5 from the.earth.li (keyserver,web,email) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
