cron-daemon WAS: Packages to install be default for Stretch
On Wed, May 06, 2015 at 07:51:57AM +0200, Alexandre Detiste wrote:
> Le mardi 5 mai 2015, 21:02:14 Josh Triplett a écrit :
> > Paul Wise wrote:
> > > On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 2:45 AM, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
> > > > - cron:
> > > > Not needed in chroot/container environments.
> > > > -> demote to "standard"
> > >
> > > A lot of packages ship cron jobs, I guess this means they will need to
> > > depend on cron?
>
> They already do.
>
> > cron was never "Essential: yes", so if a package depended on it for key
> > functionality, it already should have depended on cron. And various packages
> > do.
> >
> > On the other hand, packages optionally enhanced by a cron job could use
> > suggests or recommends.
>
> Or could better Depends/Recommends/Suggests on "cron-daemon"
>
> This remind me to dig this mail and ask again
> propermy to complete the migration to "cron-daemon"
> that got started 5 years ago now that Jessie has been released.
>
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2014/10/msg00474.html
>
Where Russ Allbery says:
| I think this would be a good thing to fix,
| but it's rather late to do this for jessie.
Updating the subject line is what I can do here ... done.
Groeten
Geert Stappers
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