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

[Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek]

On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 03:44:50PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> 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.
rsyslog has support for sending messages *to* somewhere, while the gateway
is about reading messages *from* somewhere. So to funcitonality is not
equivalent. I agree that it should be a separate package, and come with
a warning, but it is a convenient way to completely open up logs, can
be useful with a VM or a machine on a controlled network.

Zbyszek