[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#707004: upgrade-reports: sysklogd removed when upgrading from squeeze to wheezy (system existed under lenny) NO log deamon installed to replace it

[Holger Levsen]

Hi Andy,

thanks for your bug report. I tend to think this is indeed a bug in the 
initscript package, but before assigning it there, I'd like to ask the 
relevant maintainers (cc:ed) for feedback.

On Montag, 6. Mai 2013, Andy Simpkins wrote:
> Package: upgrade-reports
> Severity: important
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> As part of the upgrade to Wheezy, sysklogd got removed.  There was no
> replacement log system installed in its place.
> 
> The system was origanlly installed under Lenny, before an upgrade squeeze. 
> This means that rsyslogd was not installed on the system.
> 
> To reproduce this:
> 1) Create a squeeze chroot with standard debootstrap
> 2) install sysklogd manually
> 3) Change apt.sources to wheezy
> 4) apt-get update
> 5) apt-get dist-upgrade OR apt-get initscripts
> 
> (sysklogd was removed from wheezy due to an RC bug)
> 
> Suggested fix could be to install a transitional package into wheezy
> proposed updates called sysklogd at a version sufficient for the
> Breaks: given in init-scrpts in wheezy, letting this package Depends:
> on rsyslog
> 
> /Andy
> RattusRattus



cheers,
	Holger
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