Re: New Debian Logging Team

[Philipp Kern <pkern@debian.org>]

On 8/9/25 2:08 PM, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Aug 08, Antoine Le Gonidec <vv221@debian.org> wrote:
> > I think this is the main source of confusion. By "logging daemons", we
> > were indeed talking about daemons following RFC 3164/5254 syslog 
> > protocols.
> This is why this would be much easier to understand if you called 
> yourself the "Debian syslog team" instead.

And RFC 5424 (not RFC 5254) does support logging structured data. 
journald has rich metadata about every log line and it'd be nice if we 
would actually implement RFC 5424 in a sensible way while we're at it - 
and not be stuck at one-per-line logging.

Kind regards
Philipp Kern