On 2/20/22 20:32, Stan Johnson wrote: >> That's an or-condition, i.e. cron or anacron or cron-daemon or systemd-sysv, >> see also the debian/control file of the logrotate package [1]. > > I do have cron, anacron and cron-daemon installed, so the OR condition > should have been met. So perhaps a dependency is broken somewhere, but I > don't know how to determine where the problem is.
Try uninstalling logrotate and systemd-sysv, then try installing the logrotate package and see whether the systemd-sysv package is going to be pulled in. >> FWIW, this discussion isn't specific to PowerPC, so it should be moved to >> debian-user or preferably, debian-devel. > > I also use Debian SID on x86 and x64 systems. Only on PowerPC do I run > into the issue of "apt-get dist-upgrade" occasionally wanting to pull in > systemd, but I have no objection to moving the discussion to debian-user > or debian-devel (I didn't do that originally because I thought since > powerpc is not a supported architecture they would not be able to help). There is no specific behavior on systemd on PowerPC, so it's just coincidence. >> In any case, you should just make sure that either of the three cron packages >> is installed, then you can uninstall the systemd-sysv package again. > > No, it appears to be more complicated than that. Did you try uninstalling systemd-sysv? If that doesn't work, what is the error message? Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913