[Pkg-mailman-hackers] Bug#785193: mailman depends on cron instead of cron-daemon

[Joost van Baal-Ilić]

On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 03:18:32PM +0100, Roger Lynn wrote:
> On 14/05/2015 14:41, Joost van Baal-Ilić wrote:
> > "Using the cron-daemon virtual package is clearly where we want to end up",
> > wrote Russ Allbery in Message-id <87r3y5dwm3.fsf at hope.eyrie.org>.
> > 
> > So that would be a "Depends: cron-daemon|cron" for mailman afaik.
> > 
> > See https://lists.debian.org/<30446027.mNS7mfypdK@antec> for some background
> > information.  It would be nice to be able to ship a "fixed" mailman in stretch.
> > No hurry for now though, I'd guess.
> 
> Shouldn't the real package be listed before the virtual package in the
> dependency field? It would be similar to the dependencies mailman already
> has on "apache2 | httpd" and "exim4 | mail-transport-agent", to give "cron |
> cron-daemon".

Ah yes, you're right. Thanks.

Bye,

Joost