On Wed, Mar 05, 2025 at 06:53:34PM +0200, Dimitris T. wrote: > i confess i didn't know rsyslog background untill now... (read relative bug > reports/salsa MR/etc.. even decade old rsyslog bugs..) i can now see what > Andrew meant....
It's a bit sad really and totally unnecessary. > with all this background, and also reading the thread on init-diversity > list, i'd also be in favor in leaving situation as-is. can't suggest any > better solution.. Probably wisest. > and to be honest, now that i know rsyslog situation, i'll probably try some > alternative (eg. syslog-ng) and let it go... I think I'll start migrating, too! > p.s. devuan forks rsyslog package, would your salsa MR for rsyslog make > sense there? (can offer to forward MR to devuan maintainers if that would > help devuan+runit people..) Sounds like moving the discussion to a bug on the Devuan BTS would be a good idea. My preference would be to solve this in the fork directly for runit or any other init rather than a drop-in.