On Sun, Nov 21, 2021 at 10:43:43PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > > The SysV init script is no longer under the control of the rsyslog package. > Which means, whoever controls the start of the rsyslog daemon should > probably also manage its logrotation.
I cannot follow that thought, but well. > > > A grave functionality drop like this needs to be announced, e.g. in a > > NEWS.Debian file. > > It's not a grave functionality drop. Unannounced risking data loss is a grave functionality drop. > Also sysvinit users account for less then 1%. Pestering the other 99% of > users is not warranted Debian used to care even for corner cases, esp. when it virtually costs nothing. I do not see "pestering" here, and I do not define goals of paket maintainance as 50% is good enough, neither. > > If you want to use a basically unsupported configuration, that's fine. But > that also means you have to deal with the consequences. Before the politicals discussion takes overhand, may I rephrase this request as Please add a notice to the end of sysvinit support to the NEWS.Debian file, maybe kindly mentioning the orphan-sysvinit-scripts package. Best regards, Joerg
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