Re: status of default syslog daemon for lenny
Michael Biebl wrote:
> Luk Claes wrote:
>> Jonas Meurer wrote:
>>> Hey debian-release,
>>
>> Hi
>>
>>> Just wanted to bring up that topic again. I believe it's far to late for
>>> changing the default syslog daemon for lenny to rsyslog, albeit I think
>>> it would be really desirable.
>>
>> It's not too late for that, though I would rather have that the involved
>> package maintainers agree on the issue than that the Release Team
>> 'decides' what syslog daemon should be the default for Lenny. Apparently
>> it's either staying with sysklogd or going to rsyslog, so I Cc-ed both
>> maintainers.
>
> I'm not entirely sure, what you expect from me or Joey.
>
> This topic was already discussed at length a few months ago [1] with a
> broad consent afaict that switching to rsyslog would be a good idea.
> Some issues were raised, and I tried to address them.
>
> I'm not sure if it makes sense to restart a new discussion and reiterate
> what's already been said. Or am I missing something?
>
> What imho is required now is an "Ok" from the release team and action by
> the ftpmaster team.
Well, you expect an 'Ok' from the release team as if it's something you
need to be able to force to change a default while it would be far
better for everyone if no force is needed...
Cheers
Luk
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