Bug#391836: debian-policy: New virtual package: cron-daemon

[Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>]

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 02:36:26PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 12:54:10AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> 
> >         Are there any seconds to the proposal to create a virtual
> >  package cron-daemon? The rationale is for packages like logratate,
> >  which otherwise would need to depend on cron | anacron | fcron | bcron |
> >  etc.
> 
> Given how anacron works, I think it fails almost all of the requirements
> below, so should not be eligible to declare this virtual package.  fcron's
> Conflicts / description suggest it may have a similar problem.  Is this
> virtual package still useful in that case?

Maybe I am confused but anacron depends on cron, so a system with anacron
installed should provide all the feature of cron, right ?

A point of reference: as far as popularity-contest is concerned (one of that
package having a dependency on cron) the only feature required is support for
/etc/cron.daily. So a case could be made for a cron-daemon virtual package
with a much smaller interface.

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

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