Bug#968167: gdm3: Standard output type syslog is obsolete, automatically updating to journal. Please update your unit file, and consider removing the setting altogether.

[Francois Marier]

Package: gdm3
Version: 3.36.2-1
Severity: normal

I see the following message in my logs once a day:

  Aug  9 06:43:56 hostname systemd[1]: /lib/systemd/system/gdm.service:30: Standard output type syslog is obsolete, automatically updating to journal. Please update your unit file, and consider removing the setting altogether.

Francois

-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.7.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=fr_CA.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_CA.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages gdm3 depends on:
ii  accountsservice                       0.6.55-2
ii  adduser                               3.118
ii  dbus                                  1.12.20-1
ii  dconf-cli                             0.36.0-1
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend               0.36.0-1
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]                 1.5.74
ii  gir1.2-gdm-1.0                        3.36.2-1
ii  gnome-session [x-session-manager]     3.36.0-2
ii  gnome-session-bin                     3.36.0-2+b1
ii  gnome-settings-daemon                 3.36.1-1
ii  gnome-shell                           3.36.4-1
ii  gnome-terminal [x-terminal-emulator]  3.36.2-1
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas             3.36.1-1
ii  i3-wm [x-window-manager]              4.18-1
ii  libaccountsservice0                   0.6.55-2
ii  libaudit1                             1:2.8.5-3+b1
ii  libc6                                 2.31-3
ii  libcanberra-gtk3-0                    0.30-7
ii  libcanberra0                          0.30-7
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                    2.40.0+dfsg-5
ii  libgdm1                               3.36.2-1
ii  libglib2.0-0                          2.64.4-1
ii  libglib2.0-bin                        2.64.4-1
ii  libgtk-3-0                            3.24.20-1
ii  libkeyutils1                          1.6.1-2
ii  libpam-modules                        1.3.1-5
ii  libpam-runtime                        1.3.1-5
ii  libpam-systemd                        246-2
ii  libpam0g                              1.3.1-5
ii  librsvg2-common                       2.48.7-1
ii  libselinux1                           3.1-2
ii  libsystemd0                           246-2
ii  libwrap0                              7.6.q-30
ii  libx11-6                              2:1.6.10-3
ii  libxau6                               1:1.0.8-1+b2
ii  libxcb1                               1.14-2
ii  libxdmcp6                             1:1.1.2-3
ii  lsb-base                              11.1.0
ii  metacity [x-window-manager]           1:3.36.1-1
ii  mutter [x-window-manager]             3.36.4-1
ii  policykit-1                           0.105-29
ii  procps                                2:3.3.16-5
ii  ucf                                   3.0043
ii  x11-common                            1:7.7+20
ii  x11-xserver-utils                     7.7+8
ii  xterm [x-terminal-emulator]           358-1

Versions of packages gdm3 recommends:
ii  at-spi2-core    2.36.0-3
ii  desktop-base    10.0.3
ii  x11-xkb-utils   7.7+5
ii  xserver-xephyr  2:1.20.8-2
ii  xserver-xorg    1:7.7+20
ii  zenity          3.32.0-5

Versions of packages gdm3 suggests:
pn  gnome-orca            <none>
pn  libpam-fprintd        <none>
ii  libpam-gnome-keyring  3.36.0-1

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