[request-tracker-maintainers] Bug#602570: Bug#602570: fails to install because of /etc/cron.d/ missing

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 01:38:04AM +0100, Daniel Baumann wrote:
> if cron is not installed (because rt correctly doesn't declare a depends
> to it), and request-tracker3.8/install-cronjobs is answered yes, then
> the postinst fails because /etc/cron.d/ is missing.

Hi Daniel,

Thinking over this again, I'm curious as to why you think RT shouldn't
depend on cron (or most likely the virtual package cron-daemon). Part
of the functionality of RT won't work unless cron is installed. Wouldn't
it be less confusing for users to pull in cron? Since it's a
user-selectable feature, perhaps a Recommends would be strong enough.

Dominic.

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