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

[Mathew Hodson]

** Tags added: xenial

** Changed in: sysstat (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Low

** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #818956
   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=818956

** Also affects: sysstat (Debian) via
   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=818956
   Importance: Unknown
       Status: Unknown

** Tags added: packaging

** Changed in: sysstat (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Triaged

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

Status in sysstat package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in sysstat package in Debian:
  Unknown

Bug description:
  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

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