Bug#799549: systemd: Provide system-log-daemon

[Michael Biebl]

Am 24.07.2017 um 16:04 schrieb Marc Lehmann:
> Please consider reclassifying this as an actual bug rather than just as
> a wishlist item.
> 
> As it is currently in stretch, installing e.g. "inetutils-inetd" breaks
> systemd logging for the session, and creates a conflict at boot between
> systemd-journald-dev-log.socket/systemd-journal and inetutils-syslogd.
> 
> This is certainly unexpected behaviour, as inetutils-inetd has a dependency
> on either inetd-syslog or systemd-log-daemon, neither of which need to be
> installed (as in my case). And the only easy way around for me was to
> disable and stop inetutils-syslogd manually, a package I do not even want
> installed.
> 
> One could argue that this is a bug in all packages that depend on
> system-log-daemon, as they essentially break unrelated packages (all
> packages relying on systemd journaling to work, or rather, on /dev/log
> belonging to systemd), but of course the underlying issue is that systemd
> uses and provides /dev/log without providing systemd-log-daemon, so there
> is no good way to express this dependency.
> 

If installing inetutils-syslogd breaks logging under systemd, this is a
bug  in the inetutils-syslogd package and should be tracked as such.
rsyslog or syslog-ng work fine when being installed under systemd and
this is supposed to work.

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