Package: atop Version: 2.4.0-3 Severity: minor Hi!
Due to https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=861874 (atop: interval cannot be customized anymore) in Debian stretch I changed the LOGINTERVAL directly in /usr/share/atop/atop.daily (with a dpkg-divert), because /etc/default/atop was no longer read. So on Debian stretch the comment in /etc/default/atop stating "this file is no longer used and will be removed in a future release" looks correct. In Debian buster the comment is still the same as in stretch: "this file is no longer used and will be removed in a future release" The first part is no longer true (because it is used), and the second part looks a bit worrisome, because it indicates that above configuration is not future-proof and maybe /etc/atoprc will be used in an upcoming version. The man page atop(1) in buster states: | The mentioned default values can be overruled by creating the file | /etc/default/atop that might contain other values for LOGOPTS (by | default the -R flag), LOGINTERVAL (in seconds, by default 600), | and LOGGENERATIONS (in days, by default 28). So using this for configuration seems fine. Later the man page states: | /etc/default/atop | ... | This file is not created or overwritten when atop is installed, so | it has to be created manually to override the default settings. But the file is created even with a fresh installation on Debian buster. I haven't verified which parts of comment and man page are from upstream and which are part of the Debian packaging, but I think they should be consistent within the Debian packaging. Thank you for maintaining the atop package, this is very helpful on many of our systems! Regards, Thomas -- System Information: Debian Release: 10.4 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-9-amd64 (SMP w/32 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.utf-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages atop depends on: ii libc6 2.28-10 ii libncurses6 6.1+20181013-2+deb10u2 ii libtinfo6 6.1+20181013-2+deb10u2 ii lsb-base 10.2019051400 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.11.dfsg-1 Versions of packages atop recommends: ii cron [cron-daemon] 3.0pl1-134+deb10u1 atop suggests no packages. -- Configuration Files: /etc/default/atop changed: LOGINTERVAL=60 -- no debconf information -- Thomas Arendsen Hein <tho...@intevation.de> OpenPGP key: https://intevation.de/~thomas/thomas_pgp.asc (0xD45DE28FF3A2250C) Intevation GmbH, Neuer Graben 17, 49074 Osnabrueck - AG Osnabrueck, HR B 18998 Geschaeftsfuehrer: Frank Koormann, Bernhard Reiter, Dr. Jan-Oliver Wagner
