On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 07:26:12PM +0200, Jérôme Bouat wrote:
Hello Raphael,
you have been filing such bugs in Ubuntu and I closed at least one you
filed against dpkg.
Ubuntu isn't exactly the same than Debian. Otherwise it would be called
Debian ;)
In many areas there is no reason for
Hello Jérôme,
you have been filing such bugs in Ubuntu and I closed at least one you
filed against dpkg.
I hope that if this debian-policy request gets turned off, you will stop
filing such wishlist bugs everywhere.
On Sun, 25 Sep 2011, Jérôme wrote:
Most of the time I think that log files
Jérôme jerome.bo...@wanadoo.fr writes:
Most of the time I think that log files compression lowers the system
performance on desktop computers which have now enough disk space for
storing old logs.
I really doubt there is any noticable effect on a desktop system where the
size of the logs is
On Mon, 26 Sep 2011, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
Thinking is not enough, we would like to see facts.
I just wanted to add that changing this means changing the names of many
compressed log files and potentially breaking some (custom) scripts which
are relying on the current configuration.
So I think
Hello Raphael,
you have been filing such bugs in Ubuntu and I closed at least one you
filed against dpkg.
Ubuntu isn't exactly the same than Debian. Otherwise it would be called Debian
;)
I hope that if this debian-policy request gets turned off, you will stop
filing such wishlist bugs
available). When it does make a difference is when some process goes
insane and logs tons of similar lines, at which point the compression
allows one to retain such logs without much impact, which I think is
valuable.
Maybe the logging facility should filter the duplicate message with
Jérôme Bouat jerome.bo...@wanadoo.fr writes:
rotated log files be compressed; there certainly isn't in 10.8. There
is an example of a logrotate configuration file that happens to
compress the log files, but that's an example, not a normative
requirement.
It seems that many package
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 07:26:12PM +0200, Jérôme Bouat wrote:
I first filed a bug into rsyslog package and someone advised me to report
this question to the Debian policy team : that is the reason of this current
bug report. I don't want to enforce a point of view but just trigger a
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.9.1.0
Severity: normal
Most of the time I think that log files compression lowers the system
performance on desktop computers which have now enough disk space for storing
old logs.
I think that files compression is a good tradeoff only in case the compressed
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