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

[Marc Lehmann]

On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 04:52:28PM +0200, Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org> wrote:
> > 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.

Thanks, I will report this against inetutils-syslogd.

However, I still think this is an actual bug in systemd (or rather, the
packaging), as installing inetutils-syslogd (or any other syslogd) should
not be needed when systemd provides /dev/log (and a corresponding logging
framework), and as it is, packages requiring /dev/log have no good way of
expressing this dependency (they can't, or at least shouldn't, add systemd
as dependency, can't depend on a specific syslogd and can't depend on a
generic system-log-daemon dependency either).

-- 
                The choice of a       Deliantra, the free code+content MORPG
      -----==-     _GNU_              http://www.deliantra.net
      ----==-- _       generation
      ---==---(_)__  __ ____  __      Marc Lehmann
      --==---/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ /      schmorp at schmorp.de
      -=====/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\