Bug#77400: PROPOSAL] require packages to disable /etc/logrotate.d files on removal

2000-11-19 Thread Arthur Korn
Hi. Something like a 'package' directive in logrotate itself would definitely be better. Unfortunately somebody else would have to do that, since I don't know C (yet). Unless logrotate is changed in a way to prevent nasty things form happening, we'll have to do something that works _now_. The .dis

Bug#77400: PROPOSAL] require packages to disable /etc/logrotate.d files on removal

2000-11-18 Thread Herbert Xu
Arthur Korn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Package: debian-policy > Addition to section "4.8 Log files": > -- > A better scheme is to use logrotate, a GPL'd program developed > by Red Hat, which centralizes log management. It has both a > configuration file (/etc/logrotate.conf) and a direc

Bug#77400: [PROPOSAL] require packages to disable /etc/logrotate.d files on removal

2000-11-18 Thread Arthur Korn
Package: debian-policy Hi Addition to section "4.8 Log files": -- A better scheme is to use logrotate, a GPL'd program developed by Red Hat, which centralizes log management. It has both a configuration file (/etc/logrotate.conf) and a directory where packages can drop logrotation info (