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

[Daniel Baumann]

On 11/07/2010 04:21 PM, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> Hi Daniel,

Hi,

> 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).

you (the maintaienrs) didn't depend on it in the first place and added a
debconf question to ask whetever cron jobs should be installed or not.

i can't tell if that is a useful thing to have.

however, assuming that this was done on purpose and therefore the
cronjobs are sort of optional, request-tracker should not depend on cron
in order to not inflate depends. a recommends looks like the right thing
then. what i wanted to express was that i did not think of solving the
bug by adding a depends to cron, as it's too intrusive, but rather just
make the installation not fail.

> 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.

sounds like the most flexible and most usefull one. as you certainly
know, adding the recommends will not fix the bug, the mkdir is still
required (as, even if it's not the default behaviour, it's a valid
setting of disabling automatic installation of recommended packages in
apt/aptitude, and any package must not fail installing when doing so).

Regards,
Daniel

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