Comment 2 for bug 594827

Unlike the reporter, had not that many problems with this package once the following scriplet was run on the system :

  # cd /etc/init.d && ln -s bmc-watchdog freeipmi-bmc-watchdog
  # cd /etc/default && ln -s freeipmi-bmc-watchdog bmc-watchdog
  # cd /etc/logrotate.d && perl -pi -e "s/condrestart/restart/g" freeipmi-bmc-watchdog

packages in debian unstable (0.7.17~beta2-1) and experimental (0.8.12-1) are not fully fixed either though and seems upstream (1.0.1) init script has dropped support for debian/ubuntu and so none of them are possible long term solutions