On Thursday, January 13 2022, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> Regarding patch upstreaming, generally I agree although it strikes me
> that Logwatch is kind of a special case since it is essentially a
> filter on log files that should cover both general log chatter as well
> as distro-specific log entries (and ideally also distro-specific
> services). The latter likely aren't going to be relevant in debian
> and/or upstream. So in a sense this package is kind of an oddball in
> that a healthy amount of Ubuntu-specific delta would mean we're
> keeping it well-maintained. %-)
Thanks for the reply, Bryce. I defer to your knowledge of the package
(which is greater than mine), and so I'm fine and convinced that the
current situation is OK.
On Thursday, January 13 2022, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> Regarding patch upstreaming, generally I agree although it strikes me
> that Logwatch is kind of a special case since it is essentially a
> filter on log files that should cover both general log chatter as well
> as distro-specific log entries (and ideally also distro-specific
> services). The latter likely aren't going to be relevant in debian
> and/or upstream. So in a sense this package is kind of an oddball in
> that a healthy amount of Ubuntu-specific delta would mean we're
> keeping it well-maintained. %-)
Thanks for the reply, Bryce. I defer to your knowledge of the package
(which is greater than mine), and so I'm fine and convinced that the
current situation is OK.
Cheers,
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Sergio
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