2015-12-19 20:20 GMT+02:00 Bill Allombert <ballo...@debian.org>: > 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
In that case, we can probably close this bug. > It is unclear whether systemd-cron anachronic cron support is sufficient > for popcon usage. It seems to work fine here. > Recommends are advisory, so the sysadmin can still remove cron and > install systemd-cron. True, except that when APT is asked to --fix-policy, it will enforces dependencies marked in Depends and Recommends. In stable, this means pulling 'cron' since neither cron-daemon or systemd-cron is included in popularity-contest's dependencies as valid alternatives: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Installing cron as Recommends of popularity-contest Correcting dependencies... Done The following extra packages will be installed: cron Suggested packages: checksecurity The following packages will be REMOVED: systemd-cron* The following NEW packages will be installed: cron > So I do not think this issue is serious enough to justify a stable > update. This is entirely up to the maintainer. At least, it's finally fixed in unstable now. Martin-Éric