also sprach Olivier Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.04.17.1114 +0200]: > I'm not sure I get the rationale here... I'm not so familiar with the > diversions. Could you point me to reference docs ?
No "reference" docs that I know, but http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=61663 and plenty of discussions on mailing lists etc. > Anyway, this seems too bad... Maybe the logcheck rules shoudln't > be dpkg conffiles ? If we start using diversions, then we're going to have multiple rulesets for a single package's log messages, and that's going to make it *really* hard to figure out when logcheck doesn't behave like it should. I am not in favour. Right now, maintaining logcheck-database is a pain because of redundancy and all other kinds of mess. Thus, I wouldn't mind if maintainers took over some of that work. If logcheck finally got a macro system and we could just say e.g. @IP@ instead of coming up with a new regexp to match an IP address every time, it would be a lot easier to maintain logcheck-database and everyone would be happy. See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=376106 for some ideas and a reference implementation. I think that implementing this would be a major step in logcheck development and would be the best use of any time, rather than to discuss where rules should be. > May I suggest to document some guidelines for Debian packagers > explaining some policy regarding such cases (i.e. where should the > rules be ;). There's wiki.logcheck.org and www.logcheck.org. I am glad to give out direct commit access to the latter, or commit patches I receive. I can't make the time to work on this myself, unfortunately, anymore. I've invested hundreds of hours into logcheck but I can't anymore. -- .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : proud Debian developer, author, administrator, and user `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck - http://debiansystem.info `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems "the college students who are using lsd and marijuana today do not comprise a criminal class. they are not drug addicts seeking to escape. they're your best educated, your most creative, and your most couragious, young people. and like it or not, they might build you a new civilisation." -- porcupine tree, voyage 34
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