[Pkg-mailman-hackers] Bug#785193: mailman depends on cron instead of cron-daemon

[Roger Lynn]

On 14/05/2015 14:41, Joost van Baal-Ilić wrote:
> "Using the cron-daemon virtual package is clearly where we want to end up",
> wrote Russ Allbery in Message-id <87r3y5dwm3.fsf at hope.eyrie.org>.
> 
> So that would be a "Depends: cron-daemon|cron" for mailman afaik.
> 
> See https://lists.debian.org/<30446027.mNS7mfypdK@antec> for some background
> information.  It would be nice to be able to ship a "fixed" mailman in stretch.
> No hurry for now though, I'd guess.

Shouldn't the real package be listed before the virtual package in the
dependency field? It would be similar to the dependencies mailman already
has on "apache2 | httpd" and "exim4 | mail-transport-agent", to give "cron |
cron-daemon".

Roger