Package: logcheck Version: 1.2.58.0 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch The attached patch is the diff from current svn trunk to my svn branch zugschlus200707. It introduces a new binary package logtail2 with a new binary logtail2 which enhances logtail substantially. logtail2 can process rotated logs internally, which makes the code inside logcheck and other programs that use logtail2 easier to handle. Additionally, detection of rotated log files is done using a plug-in scheme which allows local admins to easily plug in code to detect their local rotation scheme. Code for logtails's current code (savelog, logrotate) is included, as well as new code for logrotate dateext.
It is my plan to encourage users of logtail to migrate over to logtail2 (which should be a drop-in replacement modulo the new behavior), so that logtail can be removed in a future package version. The code is "kind of" tested, as I only have systems available that use a rather customized logging scheme with "logrotate dateext". I would like to merge my changes to trunk. After that, you guys can decide whether (a) one of you uploads, or (b) I do an NMU or (c) I add myself to uploaders and upload. I'd also leave it to your discretion whether the new code should go to eperimental or to unstable. It is my experience with the exim4 packages that noone uses experimental packages, even if they are prominently advertised. So, my decision would be to add myself to uploaders and upload to unstable. I'd appreciate your comments. Greetings Marc
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