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

[Michael Biebl]

Am 20.09.2015 um 17:09 schrieb Michael Biebl:
> 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.

The problem here is, that "system-log-daemon" is kinda weakly defined.
[1] simply says:
"system-log-daemon       a daemon that provides a logging facility for
                         other applications"


Certainly journald provides a "logging facility for other applications"

It doesn't say anything about syslog(), /dev/log, the persistence of log
files, the naming, say /var/log/{messages,syslog,...}



[1]
https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/virtual-package-names-list.txt
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