Re: loosing dependencies: Depends: on logrotate

2008-01-23 Thread Tommi Virtanen
On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 07:19:20PM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: > 0: And actually, it's not clear to me why syslog-ng doens't depend on > logrotate. I've ran plenty of machines logging directly to .../$HOST/$/$MM/$DD/$SERVICE -- no rotation there. -- :(){ :|:&};: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: loosing dependencies: Depends: on logrotate

2008-01-23 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Exactly. If any of the old, rather inflexible syslog implementations >> depended on logrotate, I would say that would be perfectly fine. But >> for applications (even if they write their logs themselves like >> apache or samba usually do), I w

Re: loosing dependencies: Depends: on logrotate

2008-01-22 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, Sven Mueller wrote: > Exactly. If any of the old, rather inflexible syslog implementations > depended on logrotate, I would say that would be perfectly fine. But > for applications (even if they write their logs themselves like > apache or samba usually do), I would only expect

Re: loosing dependencies: Depends: on logrotate

2008-01-22 Thread Sven Mueller
Ivan Shmakov schrieb: > Since I've already started this thread, I'm going to ask for > opinions on the one more issue with the current (Etch, at least) > dependencies in Debian to bother me. > > Is `logrotate' really necessary for those 46 packages or so in > Etch to

Re: loosing dependencies

2008-01-19 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Ralf Treinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Currently, the `fortunes' package depends on either `fortune-mod' or >> `fortune-min': [...] >> Does it make sense, provided that the fortune files may as well be >> read by M-x fortune in Emacs, or even by a plain `less'? > Probably not, i

Re: loosing dependencies

2008-01-19 Thread Ralf Treinen
On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 02:01:51AM +0600, Ivan Shmakov wrote: > Currently, the `fortunes' package depends on either > `fortune-mod' or `fortune-min': > > $ apt-cache show fortunes > Package: fortunes > ... > Source: fortune-mod > Version: 1:1.99.1-3 > Provides: fortune-cookie-db > Depe