Bug#1018788: override: rsyslog:admin/optional
Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: ftp.debian.org@packages.debian.org
Usertags: override
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-boot@lists.debian.org
Hi,
as discussed in [1], I'd like to see the priority of rsyslog demoted
from important to optional.
We've been shipping with a persistent journal since bullseye and no
major issues have been reported since then and the feedback has been
positive so far.
Copying the rationale from this email:
The main reason here is, that I want to avoid that log data is stored twice on disk.
What exactly would this mean going forward:
- Existing systems will continue to have rsyslog installed (but they can
safely uninstall rsyslog)
- Newly installed systems will no longer have rsyslog installed, unless
some other package Depends on either rsyslog | system-log-daemon. But
my recommendation is, that individual packages do not have a
Depends/Recommends: rsyslog | system-log-daemon unless it is really
crucial to their operation. Journald does provide /dev/log and a
syslog() api call will make sure the log message ends up on persistent
storage.
- If you prefer rsyslog on a systemd-based system you can easily install
rsyslog and it will continue to work as-is.
There wasn't that much feedback on this RFC, but no objection afaics, so
I'd like to proceed with this plan.
Regards,
Michael
[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2021/11/msg00179.html
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