Your message dated Sun, 26 Apr 2009 10:01:34 +0200
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and subject line Re: Bug#522507: exim4-base: debin/control::Depends add anacron
has caused the Debian Bug report #522507,
regarding exim4-base: debin/control::Depends add anacron
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Package: exim4-base
Version: 4.69-9
Severity: normal
The Depends line reads:
..., cron | fcron,
Please add also 'anacron' to the choices.
-- Package-specific info:
Exim version 4.69 #1 built 30-Sep-2008 18:54:33
Copyright (c) University of Cambridge 2006
Berkeley DB: Berkeley DB 4.6.21: (September 27, 2007)
Support for: crypteq iconv() IPv6 GnuTLS move_frozen_messages
Lookups: lsearch wildlsearch nwildlsearch iplsearch cdb dbm dbmnz dnsdb dsearch
nis nis0 passwd
Authenticators: cram_md5 plaintext
Routers: accept dnslookup ipliteral manualroute queryprogram redirect
Transports: appendfile/maildir/mailstore autoreply lmtp pipe smtp
Fixed never_users: 0
Size of off_t: 8
Configuration file is /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1,
'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_DK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages exim4-base depends on:
ii adduser 3.110 add and remove users and groups
ii cron 3.0pl1-105 management of regular background p
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.25 Debian configuration management sy
ii exim4-config [exim4-config-2] 4.69-9 configuration for the Exim MTA (v4
ii libc6 2.9-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libdb4.6 4.6.21-13 Berkeley v4.6 Database Libraries [
ii lsb-base 3.2-20 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii netbase 4.34 Basic TCP/IP networking system
Versions of packages exim4-base recommends:
ii bsd-mailx [mailx] 8.1.2-0.20081101cvs-2 A simple mail user agent
ii mailx 1:20081101-2 Transitional package for mailx ren
ii perl-modules 5.10.0-19 Core Perl modules
ii psmisc 22.6-1 Utilities that use the proc filesy
Versions of packages exim4-base suggests:
ii bsd-mailx [mail-re 8.1.2-0.20081101cvs-2 A simple mail user agent
ii emacs [mail-reader 22.2+2-5 The GNU Emacs editor (metapackage)
ii emacs22 [mail-read 22.2+2-5 The GNU Emacs editor
ii exim4-doc-info 4.69-1 documentation for the Exim MTA (v4
pn eximon4 <none> (no description available)
ii file 4.26-2 Determines file type using "magic"
pn libmail-spf-query- <none> (no description available)
ii mutt [mail-reader] 1.5.18-6 text-based mailreader supporting M
ii openssl 0.9.8g-15 Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary a
pn swaks <none> (no description available)
ii xemacs21-mule [mai 21.4.21-4 highly customizable text editor --
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On 2009-04-08 Marc Haber <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 06:27:56PM +0300, Jari Aalto wrote:
>> Marc Haber <[email protected]> writes:
>>> On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 09:49:11PM +0300, Jari Aalto wrote:
>>>> The dependency already includes fcron:
>>>> ...a scheduler. It implements most of Vixie Cron's functionalities.
>>>> But contrary to Vixie Cron, fcron does not need your system to be
>>>> up 7 days a week, 24 hours a day: it also works well with systems
>>>> which are running neither all the time nor regularly.
>>>> anacron is no different
>>> anacron _is_ different as it does not implement "most of Vixie Cron's
>>> functionalities".
>> Does exim have specific needs? That is, is there some "vixie" feature
>> that is necessary for exim to work, that is not in met by anacron?
> anacron is an extension to a normal cron, not a replacement.
> Greetings
> Marc, leaving the last call to Andreas and now pulling out of the
> discussion
Hello,
after havin slept on this I have decided to reject this wishlist
request and will therefore mark the bug report as fixed.
The rationale has already been given[1]: anacron extends cron. Without
cron anacron does not (always) run jobs regularly, especially on 24/7
machines. I think this possible breakage is more important than the
reluctance to install cron (in addition to anacron) on leafsite
systems.
cu andreas
[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=522507#38
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