[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

[Roger Leigh]

On Thu, May 09, 2013 at 06:31:08PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Am 09.05.2013 17:56, schrieb Roger Leigh:
> 
> > The transitional package does need a version higher than the initscripts
> > Breaks: sysklogd (<< 1.5-6.2)
> > so a 1.5-7 would be OK.  This could be done as a separate sysklogd
> > package or as part of rsyslog.  Since the rsyslog version is higher,
> > it could provide a transitional package with its own version number,
> > saving the need for nasty independently-versioned binary packages.
> 
> Keep in mind, that sysklogd is still available in sid.
> So the version in wheezy would be higher than what is in sid.
> 
> I'm not sure what to do about this, tbh. Maybe the least controversial
> we can do, is to at least document this issue in the release notes.
> 
> But as already said, this needs input from the release team in any case.

So we definitely need a transition in stable.  And since it's also
missing in testing, if we're going to do a transition in stable,
which we will have to, we should really also be doing this in
unstable as well at the same time.

If the sysklogd maintainers are willing, we could:

· upload rsyslog update to stable-proposed updates containing the
  transitional package
· remove sysklogd from unstable
· upload rsyslog to unstable containing the transitional package;
  this will allow transition in testing and unstable so the
  migration to rsyslog will be completed for jessie

The transitional package could also potentially add
  $IncludeConfig /etc/syslog.conf
to /etc/rsyslog.d as suggested by Russ Allbery.

sysklogd is dead upstream and unmaintained in Debian for over 2½
years.  I would prefer to be able to do the above, but if not we
can upload a standalone transitional package to
stable-proposed-updates only and then sysklogd would need to be
fixed in unstable and migrate to testing.  Is there anyone who would
want to fix up sysklogd and maintain it?  Unless there is, I think
it's well past time for it to be removed from unstable.


Regards,
Roger

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