Bug#1085020: popularity-contest: logs are not logs and should be moved to lib

[Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>]

On Sat, Oct 12, 2024 at 02:02:40PM +0200, Michel wrote:
> Package: popularity-contest
> Version: 1.76
> Severity: minor
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> /var/log/popularity-contest contains informations sent and not logs.
> I think it could be moved to /var/lib/popularity-contest
> If it should stay in /var/log I suggest to add savelog parameters
> as some people would change the -c 7 coded.

Hello Michel, 

This file is the log of the information sent. This serves to protect your
privacy : you can check exactly what was sent.

There are software that rely on /var/log/popularity-contest, so they would
need to be adapted but more importantly, being in /var/lib means the files
would not be rotated which would be a problem.

savelog -c 7 is in /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest which is a configuration
file already, so you can change it.

Thanks for your interest in Debian popularity-contest!
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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