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Package: bootlogd
Version: 2.88dsf-22
Severity: minor
Hello!
All info in subject)))
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers testing-proposed-updates
APT policy: (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages bootlogd depends on:
ii libc6 2.13-27
ii lsb-base 3.2-28.1
bootlogd recommends no packages.
bootlogd suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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[2019-02-23 02:46] Pierre Ynard <[email protected]>
> part text/plain 1546
> retitle 663587 bootlogd: missing former /etc/default/bootlogd file confuses
> people
> thanks
>
> > bootlogd: Missing /etc/default/bootlogd file
>
> We have a similar report found in #689992:
>
> > I want to read the boot messages but, according to the wiki, there is
> > no config file anymore. It seems that bootlogd runs as a service now.
> > OK
>
> bootlogd was split to its own package a while ago, which made
> /etc/default/bootlogd obsolete:
>
> > sysvinit-utils (2.88dsf-14) unstable; urgency=low
> >
> > bootlogd has moved from sysvinit-utils to a separate bootlogd
> > package. If you wish to continue using bootlogd, please
> > install the bootlogd package. Note that the configuration file
> > /etc/default/bootlogd and its option BOOTLOGD_ENABLE no longer
> > exist; if you do not wish to run bootlogd, remove the bootlogd
> > package.
> >
> > -- Josh Triplett <[email protected]> Sun, 09 Oct 2011 01:50:15 -0700
>
> So I think that the meaning of the original report here is that
> they read in some documentation somewhere or expected to edit
> /etc/default/bootlogd to enable bootlogd, and figured something was
> wrong because that file didn't exist on their system.
>
> So this would be a case of outdated documentation somewhere or
> "according to the wiki", or maybe just old habits. As for the sysvinit
> package, I don't see that the change was documented elsewhere than in
> the changelog, but anyway it's a bit late for that. This can probably be
> closed.
Agreed. Closing.
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