severity 475303 wishlist retitle 475303 Enable support for high precision timestamps thanks
Justin B Rye wrote:
Package: rsyslog Version: 3.14.2-1 Followup-For: Bug #475303 Speaking as a user with scripts that parse my logfiles for me, I'd say this change should at a bare minimum have been mentioned in a changelog/NEWS file along with an explanation of how to revert it (in terms clearly intelligible to users who have never previously had a reason to learn the format of syslog configuration files).
I admit, that the transition was suboptimal and not announced as it should have been. I thus have disabled high precision time stamps for now (uploaded as 3.14-2-2) and will only reenable them, when all affected Debian packages have been updated to support them. When that happens, I will add a proper notice in the NEWS file (together with explanations how to disable that feature). I assume, that people that write custom scripts to parse log files are either knowledgeable enough to update their scripts or disable this feature again (so I won't add a debconf question, because I don't think that's a good idea).
Cheers, Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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