On Mon, 27 May 2024 at 12:53, Ansgar 🙀 <ans...@43-1.org> wrote: > > Hi, > > On Mon, 2024-05-27 at 03:29 +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote: > > TL;DR: drop or downgrade dependency on system-log-daemon from any > > package that declares it > > +1. Log service freedom is important. Packages should in general not > pull in a log service as a dependency. > > > The list of affected packages according to apt-cache showpkg is not > > that long either: > > > > anacron > > approx > > fail2ban > > fwlogwatch > > heartbeat > > hippotat-server > > inetutils-ftpd > > inetutils-inetd > > inetutils-talkd > > inetutils-telnetd > > ldirectord > > logcheck > > lyskom-server > > prelude-lml > > psad > > request-tracker4 > > request-tracker5 > > rlinetd > > snort > > socklog-run > > socklog-run:i386 > > spamd > > sympa > > xinetd > > xwatch > > zoneminder > > At first glance these all look like packages that should leave the > decision whether/how to log to the admin. > > However there are false positives: for example xinetd already dropped > the recommendation some time ago (Oct 2023)[1]. Maybe you used > information from stable to generate the list?
Yeah I did - it's few packages enough that I was just going to double check before actually filing the bugs