Bug#1042565: logwatch: Multiple services does not work with a default installation of bookworm, lacking rsyslog

[Akihiko Odaki]

Package: logwatch
Version: 7.7-1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

I found various services do not work on a fresh bookworm installation.
They do on bullseye.

The services that do not work includes:
audit, kernel, postfix, sshd, sssd, stunnel, and systemd

This cause is the rsyslog removal. It caused /var/log/messages not to be
generated, and that made these services fail to retrieve /var/log/messages.

A workaround is to manually add configurations to direct logwatch to
journalctl, or to install rsyslog.

I expect these services to work out-of-box. A possible solution is to edit
default service configurations of logwatch to match with the defaults of the
other parts of Debian installation.
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-- System Information:
Debian Release: 12.1
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-10-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages logwatch depends on:
ii perl 5.36.0-7
ii postfix [mail-transport-agent] 3.7.6-0+deb12u2

Versions of packages logwatch recommends:
ii libdate-manip-perl 6.91-1
ii libsys-cpu-perl 0.61-3+b1
ii libsys-meminfo-perl 0.99-2+b1

logwatch suggests no packages.

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