Bug#669017: Fwd: bootlogd messes up Plymouth's text theme during boot

[Mark Hindley]

Control: tags -1 patch

On Thu, Jul 03, 2014 at 08:40:49AM +0200, Lukas Anzinger wrote:
> It would be nice to declare a break on plymouth in the bootlogd
> package (and vice versa). Since plymouth also logs the output to
> /var/log/boot.log these two packages don't really make sense to be
> installed in parallel.

I agree. Proposed patch attached.

Mark

commit ec0ca80027fac26041e0079e0dfec2a485604b68
Author: Mark Hindley <mark at hindley.org.uk>
Date:   Sun Feb 23 12:28:01 2025 +0000

    d/control: bootlogd Conflicts plymouth; they both log to /var/log/boot.log.
    
    Closes: #669017

diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index bfa040a0..be8b1de8 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -124,6 +124,7 @@ Depends:
  sysvinit-utils (>= 3.05-1),
  ${misc:Depends},
  ${shlibs:Depends},
+Conflicts: plymouth
 Breaks: manpages-fr (<< 4.15.0-9~),
 Replaces: manpages-fr (<< 4.15.0-9~),
 Description: daemon to log boot messages