Package: anacron
Version: 2.3-13.1
Tags: patch
User: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Usertags: origin-ubuntu ubuntu-patch intrepid
Anacron currently recommends an MTA. This is more problematic now that
recommends are being pulled in by default; I don't believe that anacron
should cause an mta to be pulled in by default when one otherwise is not
installed, and in fact anacron does better without one than many other
packages (e.g., cron itself, which will cause jobs to die prematurely
because it has nowhere to send the output). Users should not have to
configure an MTA just for anacron.
The attached patch downgrades anacron's Recommends: on m-t-a to a Suggests:.
It has already been applied in Ubuntu for the upcoming intrepid release, and
I believe it should be applied for Debian as well.
Cheers,
--
Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world.
Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/
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diff -u anacron-2.3/debian/control anacron-2.3/debian/control
--- anacron-2.3/debian/control
+++ anacron-2.3/debian/control
@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@
Architecture: any
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, debianutils (>= 1.7), ${misc:Depends}, lsb-base (>= 3.0-10)
Replaces: pe
-Recommends: cron (>= 3.0pl1-43), exim4 | mail-transport-agent, sysklogd | system-log-daemon
-Suggests: powermgmt-base
+Recommends: cron (>= 3.0pl1-43), sysklogd | system-log-daemon
+Suggests: exim4 | mail-transport-agent, powermgmt-base
Description: cron-like program that doesn't go by time
Anacron (like `anac(h)ronistic') is a periodic command scheduler. It
executes commands at intervals specified in days. Unlike cron, it
diff -u anacron-2.3/debian/changelog anacron-2.3/debian/changelog
--- anacron-2.3/debian/changelog
+++ anacron-2.3/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+anacron (2.3-13.2) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Non-maintainer upload.
+ * anacron should only suggest an MTA rather than recommend it, since the
+ MTA should not be pulled in by anacron alone.
+
+ -- Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mon, 14 Jul 2008 03:18:08 -0700
+
anacron (2.3-13.1) unstable; urgency=low
* Non-maintainer upload to fix release goal issue.
