Bug#391836: debian-policy: New virtual package: cron-daemon

2009-10-15 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Russ Allbery wrote: Do both of our proposed cron daemons support that same syntax? (Does anyone here use bcron to comment on that?) bcron supports the */n syntax, but not @reboot and the other @*. See

Bug#391836: debian-policy: New virtual package: cron-daemon

2009-10-15 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Russ Allbery wrote: Do both of our proposed cron daemons support that same syntax? (Does anyone here use bcron to comment on that?) bcron supports the */n syntax, but not @reboot and the other @*. See

Bug#391836: debian-policy: New virtual package: cron-daemon

2009-10-15 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 09:18:45AM +0200, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Russ Allbery wrote: Do both of our proposed cron daemons support that same syntax? (Does anyone here use bcron to comment on that?) bcron supports the */n syntax, but not @reboot

Bug#391836: debian-policy: New virtual package: cron-daemon

2009-10-15 Thread Russ Allbery
Bill Allombert bill.allomb...@math.u-bordeaux1.fr writes: On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 09:18:45AM +0200, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: IMO I really think that packages should use the init.d script instead of rely @reboot, allowing @reboot only for sysadmin: better to have a unique method for

Bug#391836: debian-policy: New virtual package: cron-daemon

2009-10-14 Thread Russ Allbery
Gerrit Pape p...@smarden.org writes: On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 01:43:57PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: I suspect that we need to document that packages may rely on @reboot, @yearly, @monthly, @weekly, @daily, and @hourly, and also on the */2 syntax. We also need to document that, contrary POSIX,

Bug#391836: debian-policy: New virtual package: cron-daemon

2009-09-16 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 04:45:26PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Are there any seconds to the proposal to create a virtual package cron-daemon? The rationale is for packages like logratate, which otherwise would need to depend on cron | anacron | fcron | bcron | etc. Given

Bug#391836: debian-policy: New virtual package: cron-daemon

2009-09-15 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Fri, Sep 11 2009, Steve Langasek wrote: On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 12:54:10AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Are there any seconds to the proposal to create a virtual package cron-daemon? The rationale is for packages like logratate, which otherwise would need to depend on cron |

Bug#391836: debian-policy: New virtual package: cron-daemon

2009-09-14 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 02:36:26PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 12:54:10AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Are there any seconds to the proposal to create a virtual package cron-daemon? The rationale is for packages like logratate, which otherwise would

Bug#391836: debian-policy: New virtual package: cron-daemon

2009-09-14 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 03:15:41PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 02:36:26PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 12:54:10AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Are there any seconds to the proposal to create a virtual package cron-daemon? The

Bug#391836: debian-policy: New virtual package: cron-daemon

2009-09-14 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 09:32:25AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 03:15:41PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 02:36:26PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 12:54:10AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Are there any

Bug#391836: debian-policy: New virtual package: cron-daemon

2009-09-11 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Are there any seconds to the proposal to create a virtual package cron-daemon? The rationale is for packages like logratate, which otherwise would need to depend on cron | anacron | fcron | bcron | etc. The requirements for providing cron-daemon are: [ POSIX ] - Has to

Bug#391836: debian-policy: New virtual package: cron-daemon

2009-09-11 Thread Russ Allbery
Manoj Srivastava sriva...@golden-gryphon.com writes: Are there any seconds to the proposal to create a virtual package cron-daemon? The rationale is for packages like logratate, which otherwise would need to depend on cron | anacron | fcron | bcron | etc. The requirements

Bug#391836: debian-policy: New virtual package: cron-daemon

2009-09-11 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 12:54:10AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Are there any seconds to the proposal to create a virtual package cron-daemon? The rationale is for packages like logratate, which otherwise would need to depend on cron | anacron | fcron | bcron | etc. Given how

Bug#391836: debian-policy: New virtual package: cron-daemon

2006-10-08 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
Package: debian-policy Priority: wishlist Hi all, It was suggested to me (#349170) that we should use a virtual package 'cron-service' to make it easier to people to switch between different cron implementations. Currently in Debian there are three of them available: vixie-cron, which is our