[Popcon-developers] Bug#752504: popularity-contest: package should recommends cron-daemon

[Alexandre Detiste]

Package: popularity-contest
Version: 1.61
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

This package should recommends virtual package "cron-daemon",
so users can use an alternative cron daemon; for example systemd-cron,
but that could be any other.

By the way, when fcron will provide cron-daemon,
this package can be removed from the recommends of popcon.

The status of cron dependencies in debian is now quiet inconsistent,
here is a web page I set up to track the changes needed to streamline the
packages:
http://users.teledisnet.be/ade15809/cron-daemon.html .

Alexandre Detiste



-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.15-rc8-amd64 (SMP w/6 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_BE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_BE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages popularity-contest depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.53
ii  dpkg                   1.17.10
ii  libio-socket-ip-perl   0.29-3

Versions of packages popularity-contest recommends:
pn  cron | fcron                       <none>
ii  gnupg                              1.4.16-1.1
ii  nullmailer [mail-transport-agent]  1:1.11-2

Versions of packages popularity-contest suggests:
pn  anacron  <none>

-- debconf information:
* popularity-contest/participate: true
  popularity-contest/submiturls: