On Thu, 9 Oct 2025, Andrew Bower wrote: >> Will you please also provide this in trixie-backports, if not >> in a stable update (via point release), might be useful to ask >> the SRM if they think this could go in. > >On the basis of your suggestion, I am inclined to do so!
Thanks! >> (And yes, I’m all for moving the “live” logfile to /var/log/ as >> well; it exists for a reason, e.g. I put it on tmpfs on certain >> (not work-related, please ignore the footer for this) systems, >> and having PII outside, in /var/lib/, can be bad.) > >If we do this, I think best done before the backport or stable release >update to minimise conffile churn for users (the logrotate definition). Agreed. >g1pi above had the idea of a symlink. Potentially fragile but I think it >works. Both might be best. I’d also say both. Don’t change it in the installed header, so upstream won’t complain, but patch the library to use the location under /var/log/ and install the symlink nevertheless. This way, the upstream location will also work, but nothing in Debian should normally touch it, so the symlink will work (it can break if logrotated). bye, //Thorsten -- Thorsten Glaser Linux / Unix Developer Tel.: +49 160 91168501 E-Mail: [email protected] B1 Systems GmbH Osterfeldstraße 7 / 85088 Vohburg / https://www.b1-systems.de/ GF: Ralph Dehner / Unternehmenssitz: Vohburg / AG: Ingolstadt, HRB 3537
