Bug#1036658: release-notes: 5.1.8. rsyslog creates fewer log files - mail.log is not dropped

[Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo@scientia.org>]

On Wed, 2023-05-24 at 09:47 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> See 
> https://salsa.debian.org/ddp-team/release-notes/-/merge_requests/177

Ah... sorry I hadn't looked there.


> > The following would be at least a bit more restrictive:
> >   /var/log/mail.{info,warn,err} /var/log/lpr.log
> > /var/log/{messages,debug,daemon.log}
> >   /var/log/mail.{info,warn,err}.* /var/log/lpr.log.*
> > /var/log/{messages,debug,daemon.log}.*
> > 
> > not perfect though, cause it could still select unrelated files 
> 
> It only matches compressed files though 

Mine? That I don't understand... I have the ones with just the name of
the logfile itself... and then .*, which should match the non-
compressed .0, .1, etc. as any .0.xz, .1.xz, etc.?


> Maybe just drop the “*” and leave it up to the user 

I personally would even tend to that... and add a note like:

"Beware, that these don't match any rotated files which may have
extensions like .0, .1, .0.xz, .1.xz, et cetera."

Especially as there not even a guarantee that the extension for
compressed files will be the well-known ones (given logrotate has
`compressext` option).


Cheers,
Chris.