Your message dated Sat, 17 Feb 2018 00:09:41 +0100
with message-id <20180216230941.GA19778@yellowpig>
and subject line Re: Bug#808392: popularity-contest: ought to Recommends
cron-daemon rather than specific cron implementations
has caused the Debian Bug report #808392,
regarding popularity-contest: ought to Recommends cron-daemon rather than
specific cron implementations
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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.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.2
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (1001, 'stable'), (1001, 'oldstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=fi_FI.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages popularity-contest depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.56
ii dpkg 1.17.26
ii libio-socket-ip-perl 0.32-1
ii perl-base [libio-socket-ip-perl] 5.20.2-3+deb8u1
Versions of packages popularity-contest recommends:
pn cron | fcron <none>
ii gnupg 1.4.18-7
ii nullmailer [mail-transport-agent] 1:1.13-1
Versions of packages popularity-contest suggests:
ii systemd-cron [anacron] 1.3.1+ds1-2
-- debconf information excluded
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On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 07:20:12PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote:
> fixed 808392 1.62
> quit
> 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.
Since Stretch has been released with this fix, I close this bug.
Thanks for your bug report!
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