Comment 5 for bug 762505

the link posted above in post #4 is talking about the way ubuntu dev rsyslog maintainer have set logs to eliminate redondant & useless messages into various logs, its user understandable if the useless categories were removed too instead of letting them empty and let users thinking that something is borked.

That is the initial problem, but here the bug report only request the latest stable release to be merged from Sid, so nothing related to the previous link.