Bug#642914: debian-policy: 10.8 Log files : logrotate compression should result from good judgment

[Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>]

On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 07:26:12PM +0200, Jérôme Bouat wrote:
> 
> I first filed a bug into rsyslog package and someone advised me to report
> this question to the Debian policy team : that is the reason of this current
> bug report. I don't want to enforce a point of view but just trigger a
> technical discussion. I would like to be sure there is no doubt.

I think debian-devel is more appropriate for this kind of technical discussion.
On a technical level, I think the real solution would be for the log system to
write the log compressed from the start. There are various challenge to overcome,
in particular a compression format that allow efficient append, but this would
save both disk space and power (less data written to the disk, and no need to
reread/rewrite the file later on for compressing it).

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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