Bug#288580: [Logcheck-devel] Bug#288580: logtail: Logtail (not logcheck) needs perl 5.8 (Bug#252078 wrongly fixed)

[maximilian attems]

severity 252078 wishlist
thanks

On Tue, 04 Jan 2005, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:

> Bug#252078 was reported against the binary package logtail but "fixed"
> in logcheck.
logcheck and logtail are both developed, by the same team.
 
> Logtail (and not logcheck) should have a versioned dependency on perl.
perhaps that can easily be addded,
but more importantly it should be in c and not in perl.

> Or even better: Use a form of getopts that works on woody as well, to
> ease backporting!

care to send a patch?

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maks