Bug#642914: debian-policy: 10.8 Log files : logrotate compression should result from good judgment
Jérôme Bouat <jerome.bouat@wanadoo.fr> writes:
>> rotated log files be compressed; there certainly isn't in 10.8. There
>> is an example of a logrotate configuration file that happens to
>> compress the log files, but that's an example, not a normative
>> requirement.
> It seems that many package maintainer understand that the rotated logs
> would better be compressed. Maybe a small sentence could redirect to a
> space/energy/disk_lifetime trade-off discussion.
I'm not sure what to redirect it to, given that I think the current
tradeoff is the right one for the reasons I gave in my previous message.
This doesn't seem to be much of an issue to me; Policy currently leaves it
to the maintainer's discretion, and the maintainers seem to be doing
reasonable things. I'm not seeing a compelling need for Policy to weigh
in here.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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