[Pkg-sympa-devel] Bug#728114: Sympa depends on non-existent package (sysklogd)

[Doug Vetter]

Package: sympa
Version: 6.1.11~dfsg-5

I have been trying to track down a dependency error in wheezy that 
results in failed builds using live-build.

I reported bug #727640 against live-build, but they punted and said the 
problem exists elsewhere.

I reported bug #728112 against sysklogd in order to request a resolution 
as to why sysklogd exists in squeeze and jessie, but not wheezy, when 
other packages still depend on it.

I then decided to do a bit more snooping with apt-rdepends and happened 
to notice that sympa (which may or may not be the cause of my problem) 
depends on sysklogd, which clearly does not exist in wheezy.  The 
information displayed for sympa on packages.debian.org confirms that 
sympa depends on sysklogd, which does not exist in wheezy.

This bug report is a request to eliminate the dependency on sysklogd and 
depend directly on its replacement, busybox-syslogd, or to work with the 
sysklogd maintainers to figure out how to resolve the obvious dependency 
errors.

-- 
Doug Vetter
Packetstorm Communications, Inc.
732-544-2434 x201