Logcheck devel - Jul 2010 - Bug#590729: logcheck: please enable syslog-summary by default

Package: logcheck
Severity: wishlist

Currently syslog-summary is only enabled if it is installed and if it is
enabled in logcheck's conffile.  I think enabling it by default if
syslog-summary is installed would be more sane.  A new option -U
"Disable syslog-summary" should be added in the assumedly rare case
people want to disable it on the commandline although they installed
syslog-summary.

This change would only affect installations where both packages are
installed and in most cases people not wanting to use this logcheck
feature would not install the package syslog-summary.  Letting the
minority of people who install both logcheck and syslog-summary although
they don't want this feature adapt their config should be preferable to
letting the majority adapt theirs.

In Debian most software is supposed to work just by installing it (init
scripts are started by default, apache modules are enabled by just
installing appropriate apache module packages ...) and I don't think
logcheck and syslog-summary should be an exception.


Regards
Carsten