I also agree with this. sysklogd is an old piece of software, with no
new releases since 2001, and can cause deadlocks if used together with a
local nameserver (see here: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bind-
users&m=106550411521807&w=2), or delays in logging if it has to do
reverse DNS lookups. syslog-ng allows for DNS lookups to be disabled,
and has many other features. It should at least be provided as an
alternative.

SuSE has provided support for using syslog-ng since at least 9.1
(through a generic 'syslog' initscript), and other distros (Debian
included, as seen in the link below) are considering a replacement for
sysklogd:

http://www.gatago.com/linux/debian/devel/17360768.html

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syslog-ng causes ubuntu-minimal to be removed.
https://launchpad.net/bugs/62803

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