After a bit of reading from the "Debian GNU/Linux FAQ" and the "Debian New Maintainer's Guide" I was able to re-build the packages, by downloading the source from packages.ubuntu.com, making the simple substitution suggested above and then building the binary packages. If anyone's interested I can provide details.
Anyway, I've attached a patch between the old source and the new one. The old one was unpacked with: $ dpkg-source -x ubuntu-meta_1.30.dsc meta-orig I've bumped the version number; however, if the Ubuntu folks ignore this and make their own 1.31 version release, anybody applying this patch will likely be in a small degree of trouble. NOTE: I make no guarantees about this patch, I can only verify it works on my Edgy install. ** Attachment added: "Patch for the ubuntu-meta dependency files, replacing occurences of sysklogd with 'system-log-daemon'" http://librarian.launchpad.net/4942105/ubuntu-meta.patch -- syslog-ng causes ubuntu-minimal to be removed. https://launchpad.net/bugs/42555 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
