Bug#926306: RFS: socklog/2.1.0-9
[2019-04-10 12:46] Mathieu Mirmont <mat@parad0x.org>
> > Are you sure you need "Depends: runit"? Maybe it is just me, but I
> > thought that `socklog' is just an implementation of `syslog'. If
> > so, hard dependency on bin:runit is quite heavyweight.
>
> It heavily relies on runsv and svlogd, that's how it splits files by
> syslog service name. Essentially socklog is a data collector for svlogd.
>
> The alternative would be to re-implement runsv and svlogd by redirecting
> the output of socklog to a file and using logrotate, but clearly that
> would be a hack, it's not how it's meant to be run, and it would have
> the risk of losing messages when logrotate kicks in.
>
> The dependency on runit is less risky than that. Also the dependency is
> on runit alone, not on any of the runit-* packages that call runsvdir,
> so it's quite lite.
I see. Fine.
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