[request-tracker-maintainers] Bug#981942: Bug#981942: request-tracker4: Dependency on rsyslog | system-log-daemon prevents system with only journald

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Fri, Feb 05, 2021 at 10:35:49AM +0100, Florian Lohoff wrote:
> Hi,
> the dependency on
> 
> 	rsyslog | system-log-daemon
> 
> prevents the removal of rsyslog for a pure systemd(-journald) system 
> as systemd does not provide system-log-daemon.
> 
> I am not that confident but wouldnt it be a valid requirement to run
> request-tracker WITHOUT logging? Could this dependency not be
> dropped completely?

I don't recommend running without logging. Is there actually
a problem with having syslog installed? I mean, it's a standard logging
interface I'd expect to see on any Debian server setup and if systemd
doesn't provide it when users expect it, that's a flaw on the systemd
side.

RT can be configured to run with file based logging, but that's not the
default. We could probably downgrade to Recommends if there was a real
reason to.