[Pkg-mailman-hackers] Bug#1090391: mailman3: logging.debian section in mailman.cfg is undocumented

[Paul Warren]

Package: mailman3
Version: 3.3.8-2~deb12u2
Severity: minor

Dear Maintainer,

The mailman.cfg provided by the debian package includes a section called
[logging.debian].  This is clearly Debian-specific, but its purpose doesn't
appear to be documented anywhere.

The Mailman 3 docs suggest that this would normally be called
[logging.template], and the config file has a comment explaining the purpose of
other logging.* sections.

The logging produced by this package is quite a mess, with at least three
different log line formats being used in mailman.log, but I'm unsure if this is
an issue with the Debian package, or mailman itself.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 12.8
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-28-cloud-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (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 mailman3 depends on:
ii  cron [cron-daemon]           3.0pl1-162
ii  dbconfig-sqlite3             2.0.24
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]        1.5.82
ii  init-system-helpers          1.65.2
ii  logrotate                    3.21.0-1
ii  python3                      3.11.2-1+b1
ii  python3-aiosmtpd             1.4.3-1.1+deb12u1
ii  python3-alembic              1.8.1-2
ii  python3-authheaders          0.15.2-1
ii  python3-authres              1.2.0-3
ii  python3-click                8.1.3-2
ii  python3-dateutil             2.8.2-2
ii  python3-dnspython            2.3.0-1
ii  python3-falcon               3.1.1-1+b1
ii  python3-flufl.bounce         4.0-3
ii  python3-flufl.i18n           3.0.1-3
ii  python3-flufl.lock           5.0.1-4
ii  python3-gunicorn             20.1.0-6
ii  python3-importlib-resources  5.1.2-2
ii  python3-lazr.config          2.2.3-3
ii  python3-passlib              1.7.4-3
ii  python3-psycopg2             2.9.5-1+b1
ii  python3-public               2.3-4
ii  python3-requests             2.28.1+dfsg-1
ii  python3-sqlalchemy           1.4.46+ds1-1
ii  python3-zope.component       5.1.0-1
ii  python3-zope.configuration   4.4.1-1
ii  python3-zope.event           4.4-3
ii  python3-zope.interface       5.5.2-1+b1
ii  ucf                          3.0043+nmu1

Versions of packages mailman3 recommends:
ii  exim4-daemon-light [mail-transport-agent]  4.96-15+deb12u6

Versions of packages mailman3 suggests:
pn  anacron             <none>
pn  lynx | www-browser  <none>
pn  mailman3-doc        <none>
ii  postgresql          15+248

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/logrotate.d/mailman3 changed [not included]

-- debconf information excluded

-- debsums errors found:
debsums: changed file /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/mailman/utilities/importer.py (from mailman3 package)