On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 10:16:30AM -0400, Richard A Nelson wrote: > My inclination is to close this, but I'm cc:ing -policy for further > comments. > > The issue is providing files for use of another package, without > depending upon the package.
There are two issues: (1) Log files must be rotated. So if you're using logrotate to achieve this, you must depend on it. (See Section 11.8.) (2) In you other examples, I would tend to agree with you: > Sendmail also provides /etc/ip-{up,down}.d/sendmail - because without > them, management of Dial-On-Demand links is problematic... > You'd have Sendmail depend upon ppp? Someone using ppp would benefit from this, agreed, yet sendmail doesn't benefit from ppp. So no dependency/recommendation on ppp is appropriate, as you say. > Sendmail soon will provide > /etc/logcheck/{ignore,violations}.d.*/sendmail files as well, and no, > I dont plan to depend upon logcheck. Great! But you could certainly consider Suggests: logcheck as a possibility. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, Queen Mary, Univ. of London Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://people.debian.org/~jdg Donate free food to the world's hungry: see http://www.thehungersite.com/