Kafka module binary package missing from syslog-ng
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syslog-ng (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Hello and thanks for maintaining this package.
syslog-ng-incubator source package used to provide syslog-ng-mod-kafka binary package up to Bionic release. Given that syslog-ng-incubator has been discontinued and modules have been migrated to syslog-ng by upstream (as pointed out here https:/
The new librdkafka based destination has been imported from incubator to syslog-ng as of upstream version 3.21.1: https:/
So Ubuntu Focal, featuring upstream version 3.25.1 (https:/
Could you please provide a binary package for kafka destinations?
Thanks,
Alexandros
For what's it worth there is a commit in debian package version 3.27.1-1 which enables kafka support: https:/ /github. com/gcsideal/ syslog- ng-debian/ commit/ d7ab46c6f8d33d3 5c3d3ee0d09536b e654b11929
This package has been actually introduced in Debian's NEW queue a couple of days ago.
I managed to apply a slightly modified version of that patch to Ubuntu source package version 3.25.1-3 and successfully built it, producing a kafka module binary package.
Cheers,
Alexandros