Re: Heads up: persistent journal has been enabled in systemd

2020-02-04 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 05.02.20 um 07:49 schrieb Michael Biebl: > Am 05.02.20 um 07:01 schrieb Scott Kitterman: > >> Not particularly useful IMO. In /var/log/mail.log I can see log entries >> from >> all the programs configured to log to the mail facility. That way I can see >> the interaction between them. On

Re: Heads up: persistent journal has been enabled in systemd

2020-02-04 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 05.02.20 um 06:08 schrieb Russell Stuart: > journald has nits I mention below, but I was prepared to put up with > them and drop rsyslog until one day a server stopped in a nasty way and > journalctl refused to display what lead up to the crash because it's > binary logs were corrupt. As far as

Re: Heads up: persistent journal has been enabled in systemd

2020-02-04 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 05.02.20 um 07:01 schrieb Scott Kitterman: > Of course the fact that I can't use all the tools available to manipulate > text > files to follow or analyze logs is problematic. Fwiw, you can still run journalctl -f | grep bla | awk and what not which will filter / process incoming messages or j

Re: Heads up: persistent journal has been enabled in systemd

2020-02-04 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 05.02.20 um 07:01 schrieb Scott Kitterman: > Not particularly useful IMO. In /var/log/mail.log I can see log entries from > all the programs configured to log to the mail facility. That way I can see > the interaction between them. On a typical server that is for sending mail I > often ne

Re: Heads up: persistent journal has been enabled in systemd

2020-02-04 Thread Bastian Blank
On Wed, Feb 05, 2020 at 09:39:19AM +1100, Dmitry Smirnov wrote: > For example, if a certain daemon manifested a condition when a message is > logged too often, then with Rsyslog I could suppress noise by something like > the following This is a workaround for another problem. Fix the real probl

Re: Heads up: persistent journal has been enabled in systemd

2020-02-04 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 5 février 2020 01:01 -05, Scott Kitterman : > Not particularly useful IMO. In /var/log/mail.log I can see log entries from > all the programs configured to log to the mail facility. That way I can see > the interaction between them. On a typical server that is for sending mail I > often

Re: Heads up: persistent journal has been enabled in systemd

2020-02-04 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Tuesday, February 4, 2020 9:01:55 PM EST Matt Zagrabelny wrote: > On Tue, Feb 4, 2020 at 5:15 PM Scott Kitterman wrote: > > On Tuesday, February 4, 2020 5:22:15 PM EST Vincent Bernat wrote: > > > ❦ 4 février 2020 11:30 -08, Russ Allbery : > > > >> As a heavy user or Rsyslog features I feel th

Re: Heads up: persistent journal has been enabled in systemd

2020-02-04 Thread Russell Stuart
On Tue, 2020-02-04 at 18:10 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > It does take a bit of retraining to use journalctl instead (and I'm > personally not horribly fond of its UI, although that's probably > because I'm using it wrong), but it's a lot better at effectively > narrowing log messages to the things

Re: Heads up: persistent journal has been enabled in systemd

2020-02-04 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Tue, Feb 4, 2020 at 5:15 PM Scott Kitterman wrote: > > On Tuesday, February 4, 2020 5:22:15 PM EST Vincent Bernat wrote: > > ❦ 4 février 2020 11:30 -08, Russ Allbery : > > >> As a heavy user or Rsyslog features I feel that switching default > > >> logging system yields no benefits to say the

Re: Heads up: persistent journal has been enabled in systemd

2020-02-04 Thread Russ Allbery
Dmitry Smirnov writes: > On Wednesday, 5 February 2020 6:30:03 AM AEDT Russ Allbery wrote: >> The primary benefit that I can see is one fewer daemon running on a >> default installation, one fewer thing to have security vulnerabilities >> or some other problems, one fewer thing to keep up to date

Re: Heads up: persistent journal has been enabled in systemd

2020-02-04 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Tuesday, February 4, 2020 5:39:19 PM EST Dmitry Smirnov wrote: > On Wednesday, 5 February 2020 6:30:03 AM AEDT Russ Allbery wrote: > > The primary benefit that I can see is one fewer daemon running on a > > default installation, one fewer thing to have security vulnerabilities or > > some other

Re: Heads up: persistent journal has been enabled in systemd

2020-02-04 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Tuesday, February 4, 2020 5:22:15 PM EST Vincent Bernat wrote: > ❦ 4 février 2020 11:30 -08, Russ Allbery : > >> As a heavy user or Rsyslog features I feel that switching default > >> logging system yields no benefits to say the least. > > > > As a heavy user, perhaps you're not the target au

Re: Heads up: persistent journal has been enabled in systemd

2020-02-04 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
On Wednesday, 5 February 2020 6:30:03 AM AEDT Russ Allbery wrote: > The primary benefit that I can see is one fewer daemon running on a > default installation, one fewer thing to have security vulnerabilities or > some other problems, one fewer thing to keep up to date, and a smaller > base install

Re: Y2038 - best way forward in Debian?

2020-02-04 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Feb 04, 2020 at 11:03:03AM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Tue, Feb 04, 2020 at 09:38:46AM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > > * 32-bit ABIs/arches are more awkward. glibc will continue *by > > >default* to use 32-bit time_t to keep compatibility with existing > > >code. This wi

Re: Heads up: persistent journal has been enabled in systemd

2020-02-04 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 4 février 2020 11:30 -08, Russ Allbery : >> As a heavy user or Rsyslog features I feel that switching default >> logging system yields no benefits to say the least. > > As a heavy user, perhaps you're not the target audience for a default? > You're going to install rsyslog no matter what, sinc

Re: Y2038 - best way forward in Debian?

2020-02-04 Thread Russ Allbery
Ansgar writes: > So maybe just recommend people to move to 64-bit architectures and put > 32-bit applications in a time namespace so they believe they are still > in 2001 ;-) 32-bit architectures will probably still be useful in > embedded contexts for a long time and there it might be easier to

Re: Y2038 - best way forward in Debian?

2020-02-04 Thread Simon Richter
Hi Colin, On Tue, Feb 04, 2020 at 06:48:43PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > This may be a good time to mention that SONAMEs like libc6.1 are not > > supported by libtool, so in libxcrypt I had to conditionally patch the > > generated libtool executable for the architectures that did this. > Wh

Re: Heads up: persistent journal has been enabled in systemd

2020-02-04 Thread Russ Allbery
Dmitry Smirnov writes: > On Saturday, 1 February 2020 2:05:55 PM AEDT Michael Biebl wrote: >> Depending on how it goes, I might ask the ftp-masters to lower the >> priority of rsyslog from important to optional, so it would no longer >> be installed by default on new bullseye installations. > I

Re: Y2038 - best way forward in Debian?

2020-02-04 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2020-02-04 at 11:03 -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Tue, Feb 04, 2020 at 09:38:46AM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > > * 32-bit ABIs/arches are more awkward. glibc will continue *by > > >default* to use 32-bit time_t to keep compatibility with existing > > >code. This will *not

Re: Y2038 - best way forward in Debian?

2020-02-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Feb 04, 2020 at 06:13:12PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Feb 04, Guillem Jover wrote: > > Well, I guess such a new (conditinally selectable) name could be > > coordinated with glibc upstream? Say bump 32-bit ports to use libc6.1? > > (We already have precedent in some ports that do not u

Bug#950687: ITP: depthcharge-tools -- Tools to manage the Chrome OS bootloader

2020-02-04 Thread Alper Nebi Yasak
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alper Nebi Yasak X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: depthcharge-tools Version : 0.3.0 Upstream Author : Alper Nebi Yasak * URL : http://github.com/alpernebbi/depthcharge-tools * License : GPL-2.0

Bug#950686: ITP: partman-cros -- Add partman support for ChromeOS kernel partitions

2020-02-04 Thread Alper Nebi Yasak
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alper Nebi Yasak X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: partman-cros Version : 1 Upstream Author : Alper Nebi Yasak * URL : http://salsa.debian.org/alpernebbi-guest/partman-cros * License : GPL-2.0+

Re: Y2038 - best way forward in Debian?

2020-02-04 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Feb 04, Guillem Jover wrote: > Well, I guess such a new (conditinally selectable) name could be > coordinated with glibc upstream? Say bump 32-bit ports to use libc6.1? > (We already have precedent in some ports that do not use the same > prevalent SONAME, such as libc6.1, libc0.1 and libc0.1.

Re: Y2038 - best way forward in Debian?

2020-02-04 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Feb 04, 2020 at 09:38:46AM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > * 32-bit ABIs/arches are more awkward. glibc will continue *by > >default* to use 32-bit time_t to keep compatibility with existing > >code. This will *not* be safe as we approach 2038. > > > > * 32-bit ABIs/arches *can*

Re: Y2038 - best way forward in Debian?

2020-02-04 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Tue, 2020-02-04 at 13:14:10 +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > The glibc folks have taken an interesting approach. > > * 64-bit ABIs/architectures are already using 64-bit time_t >throughout. The design is sane and so we should already be mostly >safe here, modulo silly code bugs (we'

Bug#950664: ITP: pylatexenc -- Simple LaTeX parser providing conversion to/from unicode

2020-02-04 Thread Diego M. Rodriguez
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Diego M. Rodriguez" * Package name: python-pylatexenc Version : 2.1 Upstream Author : Philippe Faist * URL : https://github.com/phfaist/pylatexenc * License : Expat Programming Lang: Python Description : Simple

Re: Y2038 - best way forward in Debian?

2020-02-04 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Feb 04, Steve McIntyre wrote: >We'd need to decide exactly which of our 32-bit ports we would want >to do this path with (probably armhf->arhmft?, maybe >armel->armelt?, i386->i386t?. mipsel???). Due to the libc6 soname I agree with Ansgar here: there is no point in rebuilding i386

Re: Y2038 - best way forward in Debian?

2020-02-04 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Steve, many thanks for this heads-up report! On Tue, Feb 04, 2020 at 01:14:10PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > So, we're all fine? Not so much: for our 32-bit Debian arches, we will > need to basically rebuild the world to be 2038-safe. for being able to reproducibly rebuild more Debian pack

Re: Y2038 - best way forward in Debian?

2020-02-04 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Feb 04, 2020 at 03:17:50PM +0100, Ansgar wrote: At least for i386, I expect it to be used mostly for legacy applications (and legacy installations). So breaking ABI by switching to a "new" architecture or by just changing major libraries like libc6 probably diminishes its value so much t

Re: Y2038 - best way forward in Debian?

2020-02-04 Thread Ansgar
On Tue, 2020-02-04 at 13:14 +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > What do people think here? Which do you think is the better path? Feel > free to point out things you think I may have missed. We should get > started on this soon - the longer we leave it, the more likely it is > that we'll see 2038 bugs b

Re: Y2038 - best way forward in Debian?

2020-02-04 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Tue, Feb 04, 2020 at 01:14:10PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > B Decide which 32-bit ports we expect to care about by 2038, and ... and consider options taking into account the size of the result list. -- WBR, wRAR signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Y2038 - best way forward in Debian?

2020-02-04 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hey folks, Apologies - I should have sent this mail quite a while back. :-/ Arnd Bergmann (in CC) has been helping to drive a lot of work to solve the 2038 problem in the Linux world. I've spoken about this before, e.g. at DebConf17. He's been pushing a lot of updates throughout the Linux kernel,

Bug#950636: ITP: ruby-nfnetlink -- Wrapper on top of libnfnetlink using FFI

2020-02-04 Thread Sebastien Badia
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sebastien Badia * Package name: ruby-nfnetlink Version : 1.0.2 Upstream Author : Guillaume Delugré * URL : https://github.com/gdelugre/ruby-nfnetlink * License : GPL-3+ Programming Lang: Ruby Description : Wrappe

Re: Heads up: persistent journal has been enabled in systemd

2020-02-04 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
On Saturday, 1 February 2020 2:05:55 PM AEDT Michael Biebl wrote: > Depending on how it goes, I might ask the ftp-masters to lower the > priority of rsyslog from important to optional, so it would no longer be > installed by default on new bullseye installations. I have a mixed feelings about that

Bug#950617: ITP: python-pyfakefs -- implements a fake file system that mocks the Python file system modules

2020-02-04 Thread Ondřej Nový
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ondřej Nový * Package name: python-pyfakefs Version : 3.7.1 Upstream Author : Mike Bland * URL : http://pyfakefs.org/ * License : Apache-2 Programming Lang: Python Description : implements a fake file system that