[Popcon-developers] Bug#808392: popularity-contest: ought to Recommends cron-daemon rather than specific cron implementations

[martin-eric.racine@iki.fi (Martin-Éric Racine)]

Package: popularity-contest
Version: 1.61
Severity: important

popularity-contest explictly Recommends cron | fcron and Suggests anacron. 

It should instead:

Recommends: cron | cron-daemon
Suggests: anacron | systemd-cron

cron-daemon is the generic package name for any cron implementation. Meanwhile, systemd-cron is an alternative package that provides anachronic cron support.

Making this change would allow the administrator to install the cron implementation of their choice, instead of enforcing 'cron' package installation.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.2
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (1001, 'stable'), (1001, 'oldstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=fi_FI.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages popularity-contest depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]             1.5.56
ii  dpkg                              1.17.26
ii  libio-socket-ip-perl              0.32-1
ii  perl-base [libio-socket-ip-perl]  5.20.2-3+deb8u1

Versions of packages popularity-contest recommends:
pn  cron | fcron                       <none>
ii  gnupg                              1.4.18-7
ii  nullmailer [mail-transport-agent]  1:1.13-1

Versions of packages popularity-contest suggests:
ii  systemd-cron [anacron]  1.3.1+ds1-2

-- debconf information excluded