Logcheck devel - Feb 2009 - Bug#517615: logcheck-database: Duplicate ignore.d.server rules for inn2 new server

Package: logcheck-database
Version: 1.2.69
Severity: minor

I just noticed on my Lenny system that both logcheck-database and inn2
provide an ignore file for the news server:

$ dlocate etc/logcheck/ignore.d.server/inn
logcheck-database: /etc/logcheck/ignore.d.server/innd
inn2: /etc/logcheck/ignore.d.server/inn2

I suspect that the one provided by inn2 is to be preferred, so suggest
to drop the one from this package.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-rc6 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

-- debconf information excluded

Frans Pop <elendil at planet.nl> writes:
> I just noticed on my Lenny system that both logcheck-database and inn2
> provide an ignore file for the news server:
>
> $ dlocate etc/logcheck/ignore.d.server/inn
> logcheck-database: /etc/logcheck/ignore.d.server/innd
> inn2: /etc/logcheck/ignore.d.server/inn2
>
> I suspect that the one provided by inn2 is to be preferred, so suggest
> to drop the one from this package.
The one that comes with logcheck is probably for inn (not inn2).  Not that
this necessarily solves the problem....

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)              
<http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

On Saturday 28 February 2009, Russ Allbery wrote:
> The one that comes with logcheck is probably for inn (not inn2).  Not
> that this necessarily solves the problem....
Oops, yes. I somewhat knew inn still existed in Etch, but had failed to 
check if that was still the case for lenny.

In that case it probably makes sense to move the innd file from 
logcheck-database to inn. The rules overlap to a large extend, so having 
both installed really does not make much sense.

Thanks for the correction.

On Saturday 28 February 2009, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Saturday 28 February 2009, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > The one that comes with logcheck is probably for inn (not inn2).  Not
> > that this necessarily solves the problem....
>
> Oops, yes. I somewhat knew inn still existed in Etch, but had failed to
> check if that was still the case for lenny.
>
> In that case it probably makes sense to move the innd file from
> logcheck-database to inn. The rules overlap to a large extend, so
> having both installed really does not make much sense.
Or, perhaps easier, drop the rules file from the inn2 package and let the 
one from logcheck-database cover both, at least until such time as inn is 
dropped from the archive.
AFAICT the current rules files are effectively identical.

Marco?