Christian Göttsche wrote:
> Package: release-notes
>
> With version 3.14.0 [1] logrotate split the configuration for btmp and
> wtmp into separate configuration files.
> There are bug reports regarding this issue: #945932, #928516, #922045.
To me this seems more like something that should go in the logrotate
NEWS.Debian file, but maybe that's too hard to get into Stable, so
I'll just proofread the suggested addition:
> Over at #946779 Julien suggested adding a section (5.3.10 ?).
It would also need a title; maybe something like
5.3.10 Split in configuration for logrotate
> Maybe the section can be like the following:
>
> The shipped configurations for "/var/log/btmp" and "/var/log/wtmp" have
> been split from the main configuration file (/etc/logrotate.conf) into
> separate standalone files (/etc/logrotate.d/btmp respectively
^^^^^^^^^^^
> /etc/logrotate.d/wtmp).
"Respectively" isn't a conjunction, and there's no need here for
anything more complicated than "and".
>
> If you had modified /etc/logrotate.conf in this regard, make sure
^^^
s/had/have/
> to re-adjust the two new files to your needs and drop any references to
> (b|w)tmp from the main file, to avoid logrotate skip rotation due to a
^^^^
> duplicate definition.
Quick fix: s/skip/skipping/. Probably better:
since duplicate definitions can cause errors.
--
JBR with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian
sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package
