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

[Jari Aalto]

Andreas Metzler <ametzler at downhill.at.eu.org> writes:

>>>> 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.

The dependency already includes fcron:

     ...a scheduler. It implements most of Vixie Cron's functionalities.
     But contrary to Vixie Cron, fcron does not need your system to be
     up 7 days a week, 24 hours a day: it also works well with systems
     which are running neither all the time nor regularly.

anacron is no different

Jari