Bug#733929: exim4-base: anacron instead of cron should be enough

Marc Haber mh+debian-packages at zugschlus.de
Thu Jan 2 10:47:13 UTC 2014


severity #733929 wishlist
thanks

On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 11:33:25AM +0100, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
> exim4-base currently depends on cron | fcron, but it looks like it
> only needs jobs in /etc/cron.daily to be processed. These are also
> processed by anacron.
> 
> So please add anacron as an alternative dependency.

anacron pulls in cron anyway, so what is this change going to buy us?

We should, however, possibly relax the cron | fcron dependency to a
recommends.

Greetings
Marc

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