On 05.12.2012 23:49, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 07:10:11PM +0000, Adam D. Barratt wrote: >> [rt maintainers added to CC] >> >> On Wed, 2012-12-05 at 07:17 +0100, Tom Jampen wrote: >>> On 20.11.2012 19:56, Tom Jampen wrote: >>>>> On Thu, 2012-11-15 at 10:05 +0100, Tom Jampen wrote: >>>>>> An rt-authen-externalauth maintainer pointed out that apache2 >>>>>> needs to be restarted after clearing the cache. Do you want me to >>>>>> create a debconf question or just indicate this necessity in the >>>>>> README.Debian for a successful wheezy unblock? >>>>> >>>>> We'd prefer to avoid introducing new potentially >>>>> translation-requiring debconf material at this stage. >>>> >>>> OK, I see. So I propose to add a note to README.Debian or to postinst >>>> (similar to rt4) whatever you prefer. >> >> RT maintainers: is there any form of policy on how extension packages >> should handle restarting web servers after clearing Mason caches? If not, >> do you have any thoughts / preferences? > > For now it will need to just replicate the notification RT itself gives; it > can be run in two many different ways for there to be a reliable automated > way (at least not without a lot of work which hasn't been done yet). > > http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-request-tracker/request-tracker4.git;a=blob;f=debian/postinst;h=dd5c4995c90b43684f43bc445872e05a1ca80c7b;hb=HEAD#l11 > > Sorry I don't have a better answer. > > I suppose ideally there'd be a helper script that extension packages could > call. > > Technically of course, an extension should only be deleting mason cache > files directly related to its output, but I doubt that is worth the fuss. > > Cheers, Dominic.
Thanks, Dominic! So I assume, Adam, that you are ok with unblocking the next rt-authen-externalauth version if I use the same solution as request-tracker4 does for clearing the mason cache and indicating that apache needs to be restarted? Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
