Dear Maintainer,

The dependencies of rsnapshot seem to be out of alignment with the
default configuration. rsnapshot's default is to use /usr/bin/logger to
log to syslog, however there is no dependency on bsdutils. A file in
/etc/logrotate.d/rsnapshot to rotate a log file which will not be created.
I believe this is the reason for the dependency on logrotate.

I think that the dependency on logrotate should be downgraded to
recommends and that there should be a new dependency on bsdutils.
Obviously this will depend on the config file in /etc/rsnapshot.conf
logging to syslog or not.

Richard James Salts wrote:
bsdutils is "Priority: required" and "Essential: Yes", thus AFAIK no
dependency is needed, cf. policy 3.5. I agree logrotate could be moved
to Recommends.

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
rsnapshot, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 883437@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Mark Hindley <leepen@debian.org> (supplier of updated rsnapshot package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2022 13:02:11 +0100
Source: rsnapshot
Architecture: source
Version: 1.4.4-2
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Mark Hindley <leepen@debian.org>
Changed-By: Mark Hindley <leepen@debian.org>
Closes: 883437 915850
Changes:
 rsnapshot (1.4.4-2) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * d/rules: specify PATH for build so unmerged usr paths are discovered
     first (Closes: #915850).
   * Enable upstream tests.
   * Downgrade logrotate dependency to recommends (Closes: #883437).
   * d/control:
      - remove redundant debhelper versioned dependency.
      - change to debhelper compat 13.
   * Run wrap-and-sort -ta.
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