Bug 156036

Summary: New logwatch-6.0.2 available
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: bjorn l. <bl_fedora>
Component: logwatchAssignee: Ivana Varekova <varekova>
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Description bjorn l. 2005-04-26 20:11:58 UTC
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Description of problem:
New logwatch available from http://www.logwatch.org.  The
new 6.0.2 supersedes the 6.0.1 currently in the development
directory.  logwatch-6.0.2 should go into FC4test3.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Check http://www.logwatch.org
2.
3.
  

Additional info:

I believe that version 6.0.2 addresses the following open bugs:

116599
128617
132449
133940
139606
140238
140429
141116
141721
143267
146506
146507
146508
150459
151612
152419

Bug 153980 appears to be a diskcheck issue, not a logwatch issue.
I could not reproduce 119287, so it probably got fixed since it
was filed.

Comment 1 Reuben Farrelly 2005-05-08 05:40:56 UTC
Agreed, a cursory look here seems to suggest that a heap of open bugzilla
entries some listed above, could be killed by this minor upgrade.

Unfortunately all the existing patches would have to remain in, as none seem to
have been picked up upstream.

Having noted that, why have these not been pushed upstream by anyone?  Seems
silly to carry forward patches which look like they fix real problems.

Or were they pushed upstream and rejected?  It would make life easier on the
Redhat maintainer if there were less patches to maintain, and obviously sending
them upstream would achieve this.

I don't mind liasing with logwatch people if no-one else has had a go already.

But for now, can the maintainer possibly upgrade to 6.0.2 ? :)



Comment 2 bjorn l. 2005-05-09 00:36:27 UTC
Thanks for the comment, Reuben.  I did not realize there were patches in
the Fedora rpm; I just assumed it was a copy of the one in logwatch.org.
I recently started helping with updating the logwatch source, so I can
help move the patches upstream.  Here is my take on them:

-logwatch-2.6-101744-up2date.patch:      This appears to have been fixed
                in the scripts/logfiles/up2date/removeheaders file.

-logwatch-4.3.2-nosegfault.patch:        I couldn't find the original
                bug report for this.  I am concerned about just ignoring
                those strings.  For example, any error message with
                the word "allocated" will also be ignored, or any
                error with the word "module".  Usually it is better
                to define a more specific line in the filter for the
                service in question (kernel, in this case).

-logwatch-4.3.2-nounicode.patch:         It mentions bug #81144, but I
                can't access it.  Again, it would be good to know what
                the problem is before applying patches.

-logwatch-5.1-http400.patch:             This was fixed.

-logwatch-6.0.1-spaces.patch:            This will go in next release.

-logwatch-6.0.1-zz_disk_space.patch:     This will go in next release.

So more info on the logwatch-4.3.2* patches would be helpful; it's possible
the problem was fixed in a different way upstream.

A new release is being readied, so maybe 6.0.2 can wait.  If we can solve
the remaining two logwatch-4.3.2* patches now the next release might be
patch-free.



Comment 3 bjorn l. 2005-05-17 15:28:34 UTC
Version 6.1 is now available from http://www.logwatch.org.


Comment 4 Ivana Varekova 2005-06-28 13:46:55 UTC
Thank you for your notices. 
The last devel version is logwatch-6.1.2-1 now.