severity 620364 wishlist
thanks

> Minimal fix: Document that the user may want to turn off such line
> compression. Some recent versions of syslog can do that. 

indeed

See
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=440037
for previous report and the "resolution".

> But fixing
> fail2ban would be better. log compression is useful, and a
> program that calls itself a "log parser" ought to understand.
> Ideal fix: have fail2ban understand "last message repeated" and add
> up the numbers.

I will try to not forget to provide documentation for the next upload
and I will leave this bug open just in case someone decides to
report it again, and may be comes up with a patch on how to provide
built-in capability to handle those.

Cheers,
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