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

Michael Biebl biebl at debian.org
Sun Sep 20 16:09:58 BST 2015


Am 20.09.2015 um 16:37 schrieb Martin Pitt:
> Hello Matthias,
> 
> Matthias Urlichs [2015-09-20  9:22 +0200]:
>> Some packages depend on or recommend e.g. "rsyslogd | system-log-daemon".
>> systemd provides a log daemon (the journal) and already intercepts all
>> syslog requests, so IMHO adding a "Provides: system-log-daemon" makes
>> sense.
> 
> Indeed, thanks for the suggestion! Done in packaging git.

I'm actually not sure if we should do that just yet.
Keep in mind that we don't enable persistent logging in journald.
One idea, that's coming from openSUSE, is a basically empty package
which ships /var/log/journal, thus enabled persistent logging and this
package would provide system-log-daemon.


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