Bug#353962: [Logcheck-devel] Bug#353962: integrate courier file in logcheck-database

[martin f krafft]

also sprach Jamie L. Penman-Smithson <jamie at silverdream.org> [2006.02.22.2055 +0100]:
> So why should there be a logcheck-database package at all?

good question. in the long run there shouldn't be. although it could
contain all the filters for standard messages, like kernel stuff.

> The reason there is a logcheck-database package is because some
> maintainers don't know enough about regexp to create good enough
> rules for logcheck, or in some cases because they don't really
> want to.

then we help them.

> If the maintainer of courier wants to take over maintenance of
> logcheck rules, that's good, however I don't see that this
> warrants a  bug against either package. Unless some rules for
> courier are incorrect?

it's a wishlist bug, no? that's what they are for.

courier already has its own rule files. thus it only makes sense.

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