[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#566318: Bug#566318: buildd: Don't ship a /etc/cron.d/buildd that's enabled by default.

[Philipp Kern]

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 10:43:16PM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> Currently installing buildd is enough to try and start the daemon
> without even any configuration.  This is not useful.  (root gets
> mailed about it and things like that.)

I guess it's debateable if it should be in a global crontab.  However
it's indeed utterly useless to try to start an unconfigured buildd.
(Which it obviously doesn't seem to notice.)

> Also, I do not want to run buildd-watcher, it's totaly useless
> and annoying.

That's your mileage that varies here, though.

Kind regards,
Philipp Kern
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