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Package: samba
Version: 3.0.24-6
Severity: wishlist
Depends: ..., logrotate, ...
Recommends: smbldap-tools
Is the dependency on `logrotate' really necessary? Couldn't it
be put into `Recommends:' field instead? It will allow users to
use different programs to rotate the logs without the need to
install `logrotate' just to satisfy the dependency.
Consider, e. g., the `lvm-common' package dependencies:
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-21), module-init-tools | modutils (>> 2.3.11-2)
Recommends: logrotate
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On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 12:11:48PM +0700, Ivan Shmakov wrote:
> Package: samba
> Version: 3.0.24-6
> Severity: wishlist
> Depends: ..., logrotate, ...
> Recommends: smbldap-tools
> Is the dependency on `logrotate' really necessary?
Yes; packages should not facilitate users to shoot themselves in the foot
by filling up the logging partition.
> Couldn't it be put into `Recommends:' field instead?
> It will allow users to use different programs to rotate the logs without
> the need to install `logrotate' just to satisfy the dependency.
Users can use whatever they want to rotate the logs, with or without the
dependency, by editing the logrotate config files and configuring their own
log rotation program. But logrotate is Priority: important, is lightweight
(/usr/sbin/logrotate weighs in at 40k on i386, which is less than, say,
/bin/sed), and is the standard log rotation mechanism in Debian (including
documentation in Debian policy).
> Consider, e. g., the `lvm-common' package dependencies:
> Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-21), module-init-tools | modutils (>>
> 2.3.11-2)
> Recommends: logrotate
There are 20 packages in sid which recommend logrotate -- but there are 52
packages in sid that depend on it. If you think the majority of packages
are wrong in their handling of logrotate, please discuss this on
debian-devel and get a consensus for such a change, rather than asking
individual packages to change to accommodate your singular preference.
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