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Hi, as discussed in [1], I'd like to see the priority of rsyslog demoted from important to optional. We've been shipping with a persistent journal since bullseye and no major issues have been reported since then and the feedback has been positive so far. Copying the rationale from this email: The main reason here is, that I want to avoid that log data is stored twice on disk. What exactly would this mean going forward: - Existing systems will continue to have rsyslog installed (but they can safely uninstall rsyslog) - Newly installed systems will no longer have rsyslog installed, unless some other package Depends on either rsyslog | system-log-daemon. But my recommendation is, that individual packages do not have a Depends/Recommends: rsyslog | system-log-daemon unless it is really crucial to their operation. Journald does provide /dev/log and a syslog() api call will make sure the log message ends up on persistent storage. - If you prefer rsyslog on a systemd-based system you can easily install rsyslog and it will continue to work as-is. There wasn't that much feedback on this RFC, but no objection afaics, so I'd like to proceed with this plan. Regards, Michael [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2021/11/msg00179.html
