On Mon, 27 May 2024 at 22:15, Ian Jackson
<ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
>
> bl...@debian.org writes ("Bug#1072021: hippotat-server: drop dependency on
> system-log-daemon"):
> > As per https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2024/05/msg00425.html we
> > want to drop dependencies on system-log-daemon when they are set
> > simply because a package writes logs to syslogs, as they are no
> > longer necessary, since by default systemd-journald takes care of
> > persistent logs storage since Bookworm.
>
> This doesn't seem right on systems without systemd (like mine, for
> example).
Non-default alternatives can still pull that dependency in themselves.
The provides are not being dropped, dependencies from packages that
simply need to write to syslog are - because such dependencies are not
needed in the default setup, and pull in unnecessary packages, using
unneeded resources like disk space. Please see the original bug linked
in the mail thread for more details.
