Kafka module binary package missing from syslog-ng

[Alexandros Afentoulis]

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://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=921650) I would expect syslog-ng source package to provide a kafka module as well.

The new librdkafka based destination has been imported from incubator to syslog-ng as of upstream version 3.21.1: https://github.com/syslog-ng/syslog-ng/commit/9eb963513afed9363783274bbcd2be2e97ceb10f

So Ubuntu Focal, featuring upstream version 3.25.1 (https://github.com/gcsideal/syslog-ng-debian/commit/09828d93626bd6e425ac3baaec01611ce870fb22) does include the new librdkafka based implementation.

Could you please provide a binary package for kafka destinations?

Thanks,
Alexandros

[Alexandros Afentoulis (alexaf)]

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/d7ab46c6f8d33d35c3d3ee0d09536be654b11929

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

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.