On Friday 05 January 2007 02:30, Joey Hess wrote: > Well, I'd hate to miss the syslog, it's invaluable when there's a > problem. Perhaps the last N lines could be included, where N is > sufficiently large to include most syslogs.
Is it really that important? It is only (optionally!) included if reportbug is used, which means that the install was more or less successful. It also means that the syslog will still (at least in most cases) be available to be requested later. It also means that if reportbug is run on a different system from the one where a (failed) installation was done, we may get the wrong logs. Personally I find these extremely long mails when logs are included very annoying when reading installation reports as mail, and even more so when reviewing reports in the BTS. I have no objection at all to including logs if they could be attached as compressed files, but I see a lot more downsides to including them in-line than I see advantages. Let's just work on getting them as attachments ASAP for Lenny. (Maybe we could even extend the reportbug script to wget info from a box still running a (failed) install :-)
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