On Thu, Oct 09, 2025 at 08:04:29PM +0200, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > On Sat, 4 Oct 2025, Debian FTP Masters wrote: > > > * Rotate logs annually with logrotate (Closes: #1094965) > > 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! > As things stands, the last(1) situation in trixie is unfortunate > in all directions. Agreed. My mission is and was to ameliorate it! > (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). Do you think changing the default location in libwtmdb0 is acceptable (I can imagine the claim that it "changes the ABI" but I don't find that compelling in this case). This would catch usage via openssh and anything like it, which changes to client code in libpam_wtmpdb and wtmpdb would not catch. g1pi above had the idea of a symlink. Potentially fragile but I think it works. Both might be best.
