Your message dated Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:02:09 +0000
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and subject line Bug#490785: fixed in anacron 2.3-14
has caused the Debian Bug report #490785,
regarding anacron should suggest, not recommend, an mta
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Package: anacron
Version: 2.3-13.1
Tags: patch
User: [email protected]
Usertags: origin-ubuntu ubuntu-patch intrepid
Anacron currently recommends an MTA. This is more problematic now that
recommends are being pulled in by default; I don't believe that anacron
should cause an mta to be pulled in by default when one otherwise is not
installed, and in fact anacron does better without one than many other
packages (e.g., cron itself, which will cause jobs to die prematurely
because it has nowhere to send the output). Users should not have to
configure an MTA just for anacron.
The attached patch downgrades anacron's Recommends: on m-t-a to a Suggests:.
It has already been applied in Ubuntu for the upcoming intrepid release, and
I believe it should be applied for Debian as well.
Cheers,
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diff -u anacron-2.3/debian/control anacron-2.3/debian/control
--- anacron-2.3/debian/control
+++ anacron-2.3/debian/control
@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@
Architecture: any
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, debianutils (>= 1.7), ${misc:Depends}, lsb-base (>= 3.0-10)
Replaces: pe
-Recommends: cron (>= 3.0pl1-43), exim4 | mail-transport-agent, sysklogd | system-log-daemon
-Suggests: powermgmt-base
+Recommends: cron (>= 3.0pl1-43), sysklogd | system-log-daemon
+Suggests: exim4 | mail-transport-agent, powermgmt-base
Description: cron-like program that doesn't go by time
Anacron (like `anac(h)ronistic') is a periodic command scheduler. It
executes commands at intervals specified in days. Unlike cron, it
diff -u anacron-2.3/debian/changelog anacron-2.3/debian/changelog
--- anacron-2.3/debian/changelog
+++ anacron-2.3/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+anacron (2.3-13.2) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Non-maintainer upload.
+ * anacron should only suggest an MTA rather than recommend it, since the
+ MTA should not be pulled in by anacron alone.
+
+ -- Steve Langasek <[email protected]> Mon, 14 Jul 2008 03:18:08 -0700
+
anacron (2.3-13.1) unstable; urgency=low
* Non-maintainer upload to fix release goal issue.
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: anacron
Source-Version: 2.3-14
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
anacron, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
anacron_2.3-14.diff.gz
to main/a/anacron/anacron_2.3-14.diff.gz
anacron_2.3-14.dsc
to main/a/anacron/anacron_2.3-14.dsc
anacron_2.3-14_i386.deb
to main/a/anacron/anacron_2.3-14_i386.deb
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]> (supplier of updated anacron package)
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Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:46:20 +0200
Source: anacron
Binary: anacron
Architecture: source i386
Version: 2.3-14
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
Description:
anacron - cron-like program that doesn't go by time
Closes: 401838 461784 480463 490785 526919 527885 546169 548777
Changes:
anacron (2.3-14) unstable; urgency=low
.
* New maintainers (closes: #546169, #548777)
* Don't ignore errors from make clean, per lintian
* Removed useless anacron.postinst file
* Added Vcs control fields
* Point to non-symlink version of license file, per lintian
* Updated standards version
* Updated to debhelper level 7
* Make init script reload action exit successfully (closes: #527885)
* Properly encode backslash on anacrontab.5 man page (closes: #461784)
* Removed spurious debug message in lock.c:consider_job() (closes: #480463)
* Fixed incorrect use of SPOOLDIR in readtab.c (closes: #401838)
* Changed mail-transport-agent to Suggests, and replaced exim4 by
default-mta (closes: #490785)
* Changed default syslog to rsyslog (closes: #526919)
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