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. Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here.