Package: apticron
Version: 1.1.20
Severity: important

Hi,

apticron sleeps for up to one hour in /etc/cron.daily/apticron. This
causes other scripts to be delayed by a long time, and makes testing
your package with piuparts a PITA ;)

One could consider that script execution is already randomized by the
different timezones. Also, it's randomized by the other scripts that ran
before that one.

I'd suggest either:
- adding a randomized cron job in postinst (but this would break
  anacron)
- not sleeping at all
- renaming the script to zapticron, so it runs later, and is more
  randomized by other scripts

See discussion in
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2007/06/msg00728.html
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