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FS#53981 - [logwatch] logwatch git now support journal

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by AMM (amish) - Tuesday, 09 May 2017, 04:29 GMT
Last edited by Sergej Pupykin (sergej) - Wednesday, 21 June 2017, 10:43 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To Sergej Pupykin (sergej)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Description:
logwatch git now has support for journal from almost a year.

Links related to commits
1) https://sourceforge.net/p/logwatch/git/ci/ed6eb62f40cb97f71f3df4d982682de68cdf1037/log/?path=
2) https://sourceforge.net/p/logwatch/patches/34/
3) https://src.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/logwatch.git/commit/?id=bf7f580f8f7ef791153be84b9e00fc5c6a9f3a0c

First link shows two commits related to journal
Second link shows confirmation by logwatch upstream maintainer.
Third link is Fedora commit - just incase we can simply duplicate their work.

Commits are almost a year old but no release of logwatch has been made since more than a year.

Hence I am creating this feature request to implement those commits instead of waiting for next release of logwatch. (via patches?)

Thank you
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Closed by  Sergej Pupykin (sergej)
Wednesday, 21 June 2017, 10:43 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) - Wednesday, 10 May 2017, 15:33 GMT
A feature backport? Why is this criitcal?
Comment by AMM (amish) - Wednesday, 10 May 2017, 17:10 GMT
I had not marked it as critical. But yes - journal support is important.

Logwatch is excellent program for automatic monitoring activities for system administrators.

And report gets delivered every day via email.

Since most of services / daemons have switched to journal - logwatch more or less becomes ineffective.

Considering that journal support is in git from a year (and Fedora also uses it from about six months now), may be Arch can add journal support too.
Comment by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) - Wednesday, 10 May 2017, 17:28 GMT
I don't mean critical as far as severity here, I mean critical as in critical functionality. Feature backports are *extremely* rare in Arch.

Your best option is really to complain to upstream about the lack of a release.

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