Source: apt Version: 1.5 Severity: wishlist Ubuntu 17.10 has switched from the unmaintained gnome-system-log app to gnome-logs by default. While gnome-system-log is a traditional log viewer, gnome-logs only displays logs from systemd. apt was identified as a particular part of the system that doesn't use systemd logging and so this is a regression compared to previous Ubuntu releases.
I expect Debian will need to maintain the ability to emit traditional logs without using systemd's journal. It makes sense to me for apt on Ubuntu to use systemd logging by default, but I think it makes sense on Debian too. At least on Ubuntu, it would make sense to *only* log to the systemd journal (systemd can be configured to create traditional logs for users that want that). Thanks, Jeremy Bicha
