[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

[Michael Biebl]

Am 09.05.2013 10:30, schrieb 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
>>

I don't really have an opinion either way, but I'm sure the stable
release team wouldn't be too happy over the introduction of a new binary
package in wheezy.

I want to add, that the release notes of lenny very clearly
communicated, that sysklogd was deprecated and had been replaced by
rsyslog, even though I also admit that sadly not everyone reads the
release notes.

As for the transitional package: from which source package should this
be built?

Michael


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