Control: tag -1 confirmed On Fri, Jun 30, 2023 at 08:22:02PM +0200, Christian Göttsche wrote: > The previous upload (3.18.0-2+deb11u1) cherry picked several commits > around the state file handling of logrotate. > In particular > debian/patches/applied-upstream/Do-not-lock-state-file-dev-null.patch > added the following wording to the man page: > > If /dev/null is given as the state file, then logrotate will not > try to lock or write the state file. > > In the current bullseye version this is only true for locking but nor > for writing since the related commit was not included. > Thus the usage of /dev/null as the state file can lead to /dev/null > being replaced by a regular file. > See #1039868 as an example.
Please go ahead. Thanks, -- Jonathan Wiltshire [email protected] Debian Developer http://people.debian.org/~jmw 4096R: 0xD3524C51 / 0A55 B7C5 1223 3942 86EC 74C3 5394 479D D352 4C51 ed25519/0x196418AAEB74C8A1: CA619D65A72A7BADFC96D280196418AAEB74C8A1
