Bug#35714: anacron and cron both run cron.daily !

[Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk>]

> See the messages below, which seem to be due to anacron and cron both
> running cron.daily at the same time.

This is an ongoing discussion on -devel.  One suggestion which I made
based on some other people's ideas was for anacron to use dpkg-divert
to divert cron's crontab and to replace it with its own.  I'm not sure
how that sounds, though.

I prefer your suggestion of having 4 lines in crontab: three for
cron.{daily,...} which only run in the absence of anacron, and the
fourth to run anacron if it is present.

   Julian

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