Re: Migration from cron to cron-daemon?

[Gerrit Pape <pape@dbnbgs.smarden.org>]

On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 12:08:20PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Stephan Seitz <stse+debian@fsing.rootsland.net> writes:
> > Is this a release critical bug? As a testing user I now have problems
> > using bcron.
> 
> Given that this is a migration that's barely been started, I think it
> would be best for bcron-run to continue to Provide cron for the jessie
> release.  Using the cron-daemon virtual package is clearly where we want
> to end up, but it feels to me like there's too high of a risk of
> regressing for bcron users in the next release by trying to do this now,
> and I don't see any harm in bcron-run continuing to Provide cron for one
> more release.  There will be time after the release to do a more
> coordinated transition.
> 
> bcron-run should, of course, continue to provide cron-daemon as well.

Hi, I uploaded a new bcron version to unstable that reverts the change
and adds Provides: cron-daemon just as you advise.

Thanks, both.