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

[alexandre.detiste@gmail.com (Alexandre Detiste)]

Hi,

This was already solved in version 1.62 released on 27 Apr 2015 that will be included in Stretch;
so what you actually request is a backport of this little tweak to stable.

https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/popcon/popcon.git/commit/?id=a4747db385c72b1b4be5a4730f9361d1974f49a4


Le samedi 19 d?cembre 2015, 15:41:10 Martin-?ric Racine a ?crit :
> Package: popularity-contest
> Version: 1.61
> Severity: important
That's a bit high, it's only a "Recommends:" after all, not a "Depends:".

I would have said "minor" or "normal" like in my bug #752504

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=752504

 
> popularity-contest explictly Recommends cron | fcron and Suggests anacron. 
> 
> It should instead:
> 
> Recommends: cron | cron-daemon
> Suggests: anacron | systemd-cron

This "Suggests:" is extraneous, systemd-cron also provides "anacron" virtual package for
other packages that depends on "cron | cron-daemon | anacron" like exim4-base;
because they only need some daily/weekly/monthly processing
and doesn't use crontabs but /etc/cron.{daily|weekly|monthly}/ instead.

Greets,

Alexandre