Bug#522507: exim4-base: debin/control::Depends add anacron

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2009-04-07 Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages at zugschlus.de> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 04, 2009 at 04:04:09PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
>> On 2009-04-04 Jari Aalto <jari.aalto at cante.net> wrote:
>>> Package: exim4-base
>>> Version: 4.69-9
>>> Severity: normal

>>> The Depends line reads:
>>>    ..., cron | fcron,

>>> Please add also 'anacron' to the choices.
>> [...]

>> I think that should be ok. The non-acceptance of the anacron
>> alternative probably dates back to exim3 days, when exim was running
>> from inetd and the queue-runners were started by a cronjob.

> To my knowledge, anacron is not a cron drop-in replacement and needs
> cron itself to run. See also, /usr/share/doc/anacron/README.Debian.

Good point. I missed that.

Afaict without cron installed the jobs would only be run up at startup
(by the init script) or on laptops using APM for power management when
switching to AC-power.

I agree it is a bug (260323, fixed in Ubuntu afaict) that anacron has no
ACPI support yet. However I wonder whether the current state of
affairs is not "good enough" for exim, the cron job could be run less
often without big negative effects imho. For reference, logrotate also
accepts the anacron alternative.

cu andreas
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