[Pkg-systemd-maintainers] Small patch to enable the journal's gatewayd

[Michael Biebl]

Hi,

Am 26.01.2014 15:05, schrieb Michael Stapelberg:
> Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org> writes:
> 
>> Am 26.01.2014 12:58, schrieb Michael Biebl:
>>> One issue is the dependency on a rather uncommon library which is pulled
>>> in on every system. Remember, each new (build)dependency means being
>>> entangled in yet another possible library transition. So we should pick
>>> our (build)dependencies carefully.
>>
>> Afaics libmicrohttpd also means a dependency on libgnutls26, which in
>> turn pulls in libp11-kit0, libffi6, libtasn1-3 and zlib1g.
> What you write makes sense, thanks.
> 
> I take it you’d prefer shipping the gateway in a separate package then,
> or do you think we should not provide it all in its current form?

In its current form I probably wouldn't ship it at all and recommend the
use of rsyslog for remote logging which looks like a much more mature
solution for that use case imo.

If we are going to ship it, I think we then should at least
- check, how well libmicrohttpd is maintained (upstream and in the
Debian archive)
- split it into a separate package and make it absolutely clear in the
package description which limitations the gateway has (especially in
regard to security)
- ship the gateway service disabled by default


Tollef, what do you think?




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