Bug#257726: debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon

[Bill Allombert <allomber@math.u-bordeaux.fr>]

On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 02:11:28PM -0700, Chris Waters wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 09:35:40PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> > On 2004-07-05 Chris Waters <xtifr@debian.org> wrote:
> > [...]
> > > It promises that your package provides a cron daemon.  What's so hard
> > > about that?
> 
> > If I want to use it in Dependencies (not just suggests) it is
> > absolutely necesary to specify *what* is provided.
> 
> And existing international standards that define exactly what a cron
> daemon is and how it works aren't a good enough answer to that
> question because of what, again?

If you mean POSIX, or SuS, they aren't a good answer as far as Debian is
concerned because they are non-free, so maintainers cannot be required
to read them and there are no warranties that they will be available to
them anyway.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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