Bug#808429: systemd: Please add logcheck rules

[Michael Biebl]

control: reassign -1 logcheck-database

Am 20.12.2015 um 02:32 schrieb Kevin Locke:
> Hi Michael,
> 
> Thanks for the very fast response!
> 
> On 12/19/2015 06:24 PM, Michael Biebl wrote:
>> Am 20.12.2015 um 02:11 schrieb Kevin Locke:
>>> systemd currently logs many informational messages to the system log and
>>> does not exclude any of these messages from logcheck, which results in
>>> an overwhelming number of systemd log messages being reported.
>>>
>>> The logcheck maintainers recommend that packages maintain their own
>>> logcheck rules.[1]
>>
>> Speaking for myself, as one of the systemd maintainers, I don't use and
>> have never used logcheck. So it's unlikely that I'll do a proper job at
>> maintaining the logcheck rules. I therefor feel uneasy to accept this
>> patch and I think it would probably be better added to the logcheck
>> package, where people that actually use it, maintain it.
> 
> I can understand that.  Keep in mind, the rules are just regular
> expressions which match log messages that can be ignored under normal
> conditions, so understanding the internals of logcheck is not required.
>  But without using logcheck, it's likely they will become out of date
> and result in bugs from users (which offloads the logcheck work, but
> requires more bug handling work).
> 
> I think part of the reasoning of the logcheck maintainers, other than
> reducing their own burden, is that the rules are often version-specific
> (as log messages change across versions) so putting them in the
> logcheck-database package would require matching against any possible
> version of the other packages.  Additionally, package maintainers are
> more likely to know when messages (or message formatting) changes
> significantly.
> 
> However, if you and the other systemd maintainers are uncomfortable
> including the rules in the systemd package, feel free to reassign this
> bug to the logcheck-database package.
> 

Doing so.


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