[pkg-netfilter-team] ulogd2, 2.0.8-1

[Jeremy Sowden]

On 2022-12-27, at 17:11:31 +0000, Chris Boot wrote:
> On 14/12/2022 15:59, Jeremy Sowden wrote:
> > On 2022-11-22, at 10:04:57 +0000, Chris Boot wrote:
> > > On 06/11/2022 23:40, Jeremy Sowden wrote:
> > > > On 2022-11-06, at 09:37:12 +0000, Chris Boot wrote:
> > > > > On 03/11/2022 22:53, Jeremy Sowden wrote:
> > > > > > There was a new upstream release of ulogd2 earlier this
> > > > > > week.  I've packaged it and pushed the changes to Salsa.  If
> > > > > > they look all right, would somebody mind uploading?
> > > > > 
> > > > > Thanks for putting this work in! I'll try to have a look later
> > > > > today, do some testing etc, and hope to upload next week.
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks. :) Most of the changes should be uncontroversial, but I
> > > > did back out some multi-arch hints applied by the Debian Janitor
> > > > to the plug-in packages 'cause I don't think they make sense
> > > > given ulogd2's structure and neither does Lintian.
> > > 
> > > Sorry, I've not forgotten about this but I've been a bit snowed
> > > under.  I'll take a look at it ASAP.
> > 
> > No problem.
> > 
> > > At first glance I agree there's nothing controversial.
> > 
> > FYI, I've pushed a few more changes this week to close a couple of
> > bugs and remove some obsolete code from the maintainer-scripts.
> 
> I've had a look at your changes at long last. Thanks again for taking
> the time to update the package on my behalf!
> 
> I like the work you've done, there's just one patch that I've
> reverted: the fix for #805939 (removing the ulogd user at purge). I've
> replied to the bug and marked it wontfix: we can't remove the user if
> there are log files left behind, and it's inappropriate to remove the
> logs, so we shouldn't remove the user in my opinion.

Fair enough.  Opinion seems to be divided about removing system users,
but this is my first encounter with the topic, so I am happy to defer to
you (and it's your package :)).

> I'm going to do some basic testing of the updated ulogd2 on my own
> systems and I'm planning to upload by the end of the week.

Great.  Thanks.

FYI, I've enabled CI on the Salsa repo.

J.
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