[Bug 1578160] [NEW] /etc/cron.daily/sysstat: xargs: xz: No such file or directory

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Sysstat has changed the default compression from bzip2 to xz but the packages is lack of depend of the xz-utils.
This causes the daily cronjob to fail with:

/etc/cron.daily/sysstat:
xargs: xz: No such file or directory

This has been fixed in the Debian package by depending on the correct compression package.
https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/users/robert/sysstat.git/commit/?id=a3cb350b63d3fd819d86e1f865589e5b2b73d393

Attaching a patch which will do the same for Ubuntu.


# lsb_release -rd
Description:    Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Release:        16.04

# apt-cache policy sysstat
sysstat:
  Installed: 11.2.0-1
  Candidate: 11.2.0-1
  Version table:
 *** 11.2.0-1 500
        500 http://linux-sua.it.su.se/xenial/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

** Affects: sysstat (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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/etc/cron.daily/sysstat: xargs: xz: No such file or directory
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1578160
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