Package: cron-apt Version: 0.6.6 Severity: minor Tags: patch You can safely drop the dependency on the Essential package debianutils (>= 1.7) now that Hamm is Old-old-old-old-oldstable.
Oh, and if you feel like getting rid of the "Recommends: liblockfile1" dependency too, you could probably rewrite cron-apt to use the new /usr/bin/flock in (Lenny's Essential) util-linux... but my patch is far too trivial to cover that. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.25.custom Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages cron-apt depends on: ii apt 0.7.14+b1 Advanced front-end for dpkg ii debianutils 2.28.4 Miscellaneous utilities specific t Versions of packages cron-apt recommends: ii bsd-mailx [mailx] 8.1.2-0.20071201cvs-3 A simple mail user agent ii cron 3.0pl1-104 management of regular background p ii liblockfile1 1.07-1 NFS-safe locking library, includes -- no debconf information -- JBR Ankh kak! (Ancient Egyptian blessing)
diff -ur cron-apt-0.6.6.pristine/debian/control cron-apt-0.6.6/debian/control --- cron-apt-0.6.6.pristine/debian/control 2007-02-04 11:04:27.000000000 +0000 +++ cron-apt-0.6.6/debian/control 2008-06-26 15:11:35.000000000 +0100 @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Package: cron-apt Architecture: all -Depends: apt, debianutils (>= 1.7) +Depends: apt Recommends: liblockfile1, mailx, cron Description: automatic update of packages using apt-get Contains a tool that is run by a cron job at regular intervals. By default it
