Package: dpkg Version: 1.17.21 Severity: normal The default logrotate settings for /var/log/dpkg.log (from /etc/logrotate.d/dpkg) have "monthly 12", which grants a 1-year long history of dpkg operations.
It would be desirable to have a longer history than that by default, ideally a *complete* history, dating back to the original installation. Considering how small dpkg.log usually is in comparison to other log files in /var/log, doing so looks feasible. The disk usage would cap at few megabytes for routinely updated stable machines over a 10-year period. If you don't want to go unlimited history, bumping to a max of 10 years (maybe increasing rotation period as well to 1 year) would be nice. Anything in between would be nicer tha a 1-year long history only. Thanks for considering! Cheers. -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=it_IT.utf8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages dpkg depends on: ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.6-7+b2 ii libc6 2.19-13 ii liblzma5 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2+b3 ii libselinux1 2.3-2 ii tar 1.27.1-2+b1 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1 dpkg recommends no packages. Versions of packages dpkg suggests: ii apt 1.0.9.4 -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
