Re: MBF: drop dependencies on system-log-daemon
On Mon, 27 May 2024 at 12:53, Ansgar 🙀 <ansgar@43-1.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 2024-05-27 at 03:29 +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> > TL;DR: drop or downgrade dependency on system-log-daemon from any
> > package that declares it
>
> +1. Log service freedom is important. Packages should in general not
> pull in a log service as a dependency.
>
> > The list of affected packages according to apt-cache showpkg is not
> > that long either:
> >
> > anacron
> > approx
> > fail2ban
> > fwlogwatch
> > heartbeat
> > hippotat-server
> > inetutils-ftpd
> > inetutils-inetd
> > inetutils-talkd
> > inetutils-telnetd
> > ldirectord
> > logcheck
> > lyskom-server
> > prelude-lml
> > psad
> > request-tracker4
> > request-tracker5
> > rlinetd
> > snort
> > socklog-run
> > socklog-run:i386
> > spamd
> > sympa
> > xinetd
> > xwatch
> > zoneminder
>
> At first glance these all look like packages that should leave the
> decision whether/how to log to the admin.
>
> However there are false positives: for example xinetd already dropped
> the recommendation some time ago (Oct 2023)[1]. Maybe you used
> information from stable to generate the list?
Yeah I did - it's few packages enough that I was just going to double
check before actually filing the bugs
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