Package: release-notes
Severity: normal
The rsyslog configuration changed significantly in bookworm.
Copying the relevant parts from the changelog:
rsyslog (8.2210.0-3) unstable; urgency=medium
* Stop splitting up mail.*
This avoids having mail related messages duplicated in mail.log and
mail.{info,warn,err}. (Closes: #508376)
* Drop catch-all log files /var/log/{messages,debug}
Avoid unnecessary duplication as those log messages end up in
/var/log/syslog anyway. (Closes: #580552)
* Stop splitting lpr facility into its own log file.
The default printing system CUPS is not using this facility so its
basically unused nowadays.
* Stop splitting daemon facility into its own log file.
The daemon facility is too vaguely defined to be really useful and since
those log messages end up in /var/log/syslog anyway, stop duplicating
them.
* Split cron facility into its own log file /var/log/cron.log.
The cron facility is widely used and limited enough in scope to have it
split out separately. (Closes: #625483)
* Update comments in rsyslog.conf
* Enable high precision timestamps with timezone information.
Use the default rsyslog file format, which provides several benefits
like:
- sortable
- time zone information
- sub-second time resolution
(Closes: #475303)
-- Michael Biebl <bi...@debian.org> Sat, 29 Oct 2022 22:54:41 +0200
Assuming there is no huge backlash regarding those changes and they will
stay as-is, they should probably be documented in the release notes.
Regards,
Michael
