[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 08:27:23PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote:
> 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 now removed from unstable, so if the rsyslog maintainers
wish to put a transitional package in place in unstable, that's now
possible.

Stable release managers: would rsyslog putting a transitional package
into stable be acceptable, so that sysklogd users upgrading to wheezy
won't be left in a state where they don't have an installing syslog?


Regards,
Roger

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