On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 04:11:47PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
In an ideal view, it makes most sense to provide the rsyslog default configuration in a subpackage which puts the /var/log/messages and /var/log/secure conf files in /etc/rsyslog.d -- then, this subpackage would provide those files. Unfortunately, in order to preserve behavior on upgrade, the main package would have to depend on this, kind of making the distinction moot.
You don't need rsyslog to require rsyslog-put-your-files-here-config, you just need both of them to have Obsoletes for the versions before the split.
Oooh, clever!