[Popcon-developers] Bug#808392: popularity-contest: ought to Recommends cron-daemon rather than specific cron implementations

[Bill Allombert]

fixed 808392 1.62
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On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 03:41:10PM +0200, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> Package: popularity-contest
> Version: 1.61
> Severity: important
> 
> popularity-contest explictly Recommends cron | fcron and Suggests anacron. 
> 
> It should instead:
> 
> Recommends: cron | cron-daemon
> Suggests: anacron | systemd-cron
> 
> cron-daemon is the generic package name for any cron implementation.
> Meanwhile, systemd-cron is an alternative package that provides
> anachronic cron support.
> 
> Making this change would allow the administrator to install the cron
> implementation of their choice, instead of enforcing 'cron' package
> installation.

Hello,
Historically a package implementing cron-daemon was not required to
support cron.daily and cron.weekly, so it was not sufficient for 
popcon.

This issue was fixed in debian-policy, and then in popcon 1.62, see bug
#752504

It is unclear whether systemd-cron anachronic cron support is sufficient
for popcon usage.

Recommends are advisory, so the sysadmin can still remove cron and
install systemd-cron.

So I do not think this issue is serious enough to justify a stable
update.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe at debian.org>

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