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

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 08:00:32PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 02:11:28PM -0700, Chris Waters wrote:
> > 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.

SUSv3, a.k.a. POSIX, is freely available here, and has been for quite
some time:

  http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/nfindex.html

Similarly, the old SUSv2 is here:

  http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]