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

[Michael Biebl]

Am 10.06.22 um 07:43 schrieb nick black:
> i'm running into this thanks to zoneminder (it looks like some
> packages which were depending on rsyslogd|system-log-daemon, ala
> the aforementioned nullmailer, no longer do). looking at
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/systemd.postinst, it appears that persistent
> journal in auto-mode *is* enabled by default on new installs and
> upgrades:
> 
>   # Enable persistent journal, in auto-mode, by default on new installs and upgrades
>   if dpkg --compare-versions "$2" lt "244.1-2~"; then
>       mkdir -p /var/log/journal
> 
> ought this bug be revisited given this fact? i see the last
> comment is from 2017, and systemd 244 was released in 2019.
> 
> i see reference to some other, small package which enables
> persistent logging, but i'm unaware of any such package, and it
> seems unlikely to exist given the code above.

My comments why the systemd package can't have a 
Conflicts/Replaces/Provides: system-log-daemon still apply (it would 
make packages like rsyslog uninstallable).

That said, I think most packages don't need a hard dependency on 
system-log-daemon (and I think zoneminder does neither).

Could you ask the zoneminder maintainer to demote the dependency to 
Suggests (or Recommends at least)?

Michael
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