Control: unblock -1 by 1084924
Control: severity -1 wishlist
Control: tags -1 wontfix
Control: close -1
On Mon, 27 May 2024 at 22:18, Luca Boccassi <bl...@debian.org> wrote:
>
> 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.
On the other hand, it is not the end of the world if packages that are
not installed by default (via prio/tasksel/etc) pull in extra
dependencies, so it's entirely ok if this one stays as-is, hence as
the bug submitter I'll go ahead and close+wontfix.
