I think there are other means to communicate the supportedness of packages, like the "Supported" field in the control file.
We do have reports of the same effect, that installing syslog-ng is a hassle, just because of the this dependency, like: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/syslog-ng/+bug/1242173 Can you pls fix this in one way or the other? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to ubuntu-meta in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/33394 Title: ubuntu-minimal should depend on system-log-daemon Status in ubuntu-meta package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: The current deps make installing syslog-ng remove ubuntu-minimal. If ubuntu-minimal were to depend on: sysklogd | system-log-daemon then one could install syslog-ng without removing ubuntu-minimal. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-meta/+bug/33394/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp